The Fatigue Symptom Inventory has been used extensively to assess and measure fatigue in a number of clinical populations. The purpose of the present study was to further establish its utility by examining its operating characteristics and determining the optimal cutoff score for identifying clinically meaningful fatigue. The MOS 36-Item Short Form Vitality scale, a measure widely used to ident...

Abstract Individuals with work addiction (WA) are characterized by low self-esteem, high obsessiveness, and impulsiveness; they overloaded tasks show sleep problems. These characteristics suggest that workaholics might be prone to use psychostimulant substances; however, this relationship has never been investigated. The present study aimed explore the prevalence of among individuals WA in a re...

Abstract Objective Brief-COPE inventory is widely used to assess coping; however, validation evidence absent and previous results were inconsistent. This study aimed validate psychometric properties of this ensure culturally appropriate usage. Methods Preliminary on 423 female nurses from the United Arab Emirates. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with maximum likelihood estimation was compute...

The participants in the NIMH-MATRICS Consensus Development Conference on Negative Symptoms recommended that an instrument be developed that measured blunted affect, alogia, asociality, anhedonia, and avolition. The Brief Negative Symptom Scale (BNSS) is a 13-item instrument designed for clinical trials and other studies that measures these 5 domains. The interrater, test-retest, and internal co...