The Psychological Well-Being Post-Traumatic Changes Questionnaire (PWB-PTCQ) is an 18 item self-report measure to assess perceived changes in psychological well-being following traumatic events. The aim was to test its psychometric properties. Across three samples, evidence is provided for a single factor structure (invariant across clinical and general populations), high internal consistency (...

February 2002 • American Psychologist able to improve on the validity of their assessment conclusions (Garb, 1998; Grove, Zald, Lebow, Snitz, & Nelson, 2000). Because Meyer et al. (2001) provided an overly optimistic evaluation of current psychological assessment practices, many readers of their article are likely to conclude that the scientific status of psychological assessment is firmly esta...

The Jung Psychological Types Scale (JPTS) is the most recently developed instrument for the measurement of Jung’s psychological types. The JPTS conforms closely to Jung’s orthogonal, three-dimensional model of psychological types: extraversion-introversion, thinking-feeling, and sensation-intuition. The JPTS uses 7-point Likert-scale items in a bipolar format. The appropriateness of item conten...

In pediatric chronic pain, research indicates a positive relation between parental psychological flexibility (i.e., the parent's willingness to experience distress related to the child's pain in the service of valued behavior) and level of functioning in the child. This points to the utility of targeting parental psychological flexibility in pediatric chronic pain. The Parent Psychological Flex...

Although Construct validity theory (CVT) did not formally enter the scene until psychology was into its eighth decade as an established independent discipline, it might be argued that the history of test-related validity as an area of scholarship is as old as the discipline itself. That is to say, the story of the history of disciplinary psychology is in many ways a story about psychological me...

BACKGROUND Validity evidence based on the internal structure of an assessment is one of the five forms of validity evidence stipulated in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing of the American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education. In this paper, we describe the concepts underlying internal structu...

The increasing need of automated analyzing web texts especially the short texts on Social Network Services (SNS) brings new demands of computerized text analysis instruments. The psychometric properties are the basis of the extensive use of these instruments such as the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). For this study, Sina Weibo statuses were analyzed via rater coding and Simplified Ch...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the Inventory of Violence and Psychological Harassment (IVAPT) (Pando, 2006), a 22-item measure of psychological harassment at work and presence and intensity of psychological violence widely used in Latin American countries. METHODS The IVAPT was translated into Japanese, and the translat...