BACKGROUND The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) measures general stress and the Swedish version, although used in several studies, has not been extensively evaluated for psychometric properties. AIMS This study aimed to investigate psychometric properties and the factor solution of the Swedish 14-item version when used with two samples, namely a mixed Internet sample of women and men (n = 171) an...

PURPOSE The modern health worries (MHW) scale was developed to assess individuals' worries about aspects of modernity and technology affecting personal health. The aim of this study was to psychometrically evaluate a Swedish version of the MHW scale and to provide Swedish normative data. METHOD Data were collected as part of the Västerbotten Environmental Health Study, which has a random samp...

The conventional view (Hoar, 1970; Liley, 1970; Harvey and Hoar, 1979) of the sequence of events which, in fish, leads to first gonadal maturation and subsequent spawning, starts with "environmental stimuli" which the brain and pineal gland process and pass on to the hypothalamus, which passes its information to the pituitary; gonadotropic hormones are then synthesized and released which leads ...

This study examines 2 aspects of cognitive processing in person perception—attention and decision making—in classroom-relevant contexts. Teachers completed 2 implicit, performance-based tasks that characterized attention to and utilization of 4 student characteristics of interest: ethnicity, facial affect, body size, and attractiveness. Stimuli were 24 full-body photos of girls that varied alon...

OBJECTIVE This study presents an initial evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Dynamic Occupation Assessment of Executive Function (DOAEF), a new tool designed to assess adolescents' executive function (EF) in daily situations and offering two levels of mediation through the administration process. METHOD In the preliminary study, we tested 22 healthy adolescents. In the advanced s...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of the Second Korean Working Conditions Survey (KWCS), focusing on its validity and reliability. METHODS The external validity was evaluated by the assessment of sampling procedures and the response rate, in order to investigate the representativeness of the sample. The content validity was evaluated by the assessment of the develop...

Military, diplomatic, and intelligence analysts are increasingly interested in having a valid system of models that span the social sciences and interoperate so that one can determine the effects that may arise from alternative operations (courses of action) in different lands. Part I of this article concentrated on internal validity of the components of such a synthetic framework – a world dip...

BACKGROUND The Long Form and Short Form of the German (original) version of the Urticaria Control Test (UCT) have shown to be valid and reliable instruments for assessing patients with all types of chronic urticaria (CU). The cutoff scores for identifying patients with well-controlled disease were  ≥  24 and  ≥  12 for Long and Short Forms, respectively. However, the sensitivity to change and m...

The EBN users’ guide in the previous issue of Evidence-Based Nursing outlined the primary and secondary questions for evaluating studies of healthcare interventions. One of the primary questions for assessing the validity of a study’s findings is whether the assignment of patients to treatments was randomised and whether randomisation was concealed. One of the secondary questions is whether pat...

Political statements about the relationship between the economyand health intensify during economic downturns and fade in times of prosperity. Population health researchers share this cyclical interest in that the numbers of peerreviewed publications on this topic increase during and immediately after recessions. In this issue of the Journal, Cylus et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;180(1):45–52) fol...