BACKGROUND Telephone cognitive batteries are useful for large-scale screening and epidemiological studies, but their brevity and lack of content depth may cause psychometric limitations that hinder their utility. OBJECTIVE The current study addressed some of these limitations by rescaling the Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT; Tun & Lachman, 2006) using modern psychometric met...

BACKGROUND Handgrip strength is currently considered a predictor of overall muscle strength and functional capacity. Therefore, it is important to find reliable and affordable instruments for this analysis, such as the modified sphygmomanometer test (MST). OBJECTIVES To assess the concurrent criterion validity of the MST, to compare the MST with the Jamar dynamometer, and to analyze the repro...

The Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory-Short Version (YPI-S; van Baardewijk et al., 2010) is a self-report measure to assess psychopathic-like traits in adolescents. The aim of the present study is to investigate the factor structure, the internal consistency, and the criterion validity of the YPI-S in 768 Belgian community adolescents (45.4 % males). In general, our study supported the YPI th...

BACKGROUND The quality of the parent-child relationship has an important effect on a wide range of child outcomes. The evaluation of interventions to promote healthy parenting and family relationships is dependent on outcome measures which can quantify the quality of parent-child relationships. Between the Mothers' Object Relations - Short Form (MORS-SF) scale for babies and the Child-parent Re...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the test-retest reliability, the concurrent criterion validity, and the construct validity of prehospital, emergency medical service (EMS) case finding for depression and cognitive impairment in older adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Prehospital EMS system and hospital emergency department. PARTICIPANTS EMS providers and community-dwelling older adult (...

olleges use SAT ® I scores and the high school record to predict success in college. Validity studies are conducted to determine the effectiveness of these predictors of success in college. The relationship of the predictors to an appropriate criterion of college success is an indicator of effectiveness. The relationship between predictors—such as the SAT I and high school grades—and a criterio...

Mayorga-Vega, D., Viciana, J., Cocca, A., & Merino-Marban, R. (2014). Criterion-related validity of toetouch test for estimating hamstring extensibility: A meta-analysis J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 9(1), pp. 188-200. The main purpose of the present meta-analysis was to examine the scientific literature on the criterionrelated validity of the toe-touch test for estimating hamstring extensibility. For ...

Adaptation of the short-form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) to Turkish for the Adolescents Objective: The purpose of this study is to adapt short form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-8) to Turkish and investigate the validity and reliability of the scale for Turkish adolescents. Method: The participants in this study were 293 high school students aged between 14 and 19. Among the partic...

This note is concerned with a validity-related limitation of the widely available and used index “alpha if item deleted” in the process of construction and development of multiplecomponent measuring instruments. Attention is drawn to the fact that this statistic can suggest dispensing with such scale components, whose removal leads to loss in criterion validity while maximising the popular coef...

This study used a theoretically-derived set of items of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment to develop the Achenbach Self-Control Scale (ASCS) for 7–16 year olds. Using a large dataset of over 20,000 children, who are enrolled in the Netherlands Twin Register, we demonstrated the psychometric properties of the ASCS for parent-, selfand teacherreport by examining internal and cr...