Using a school-based (N = 1,060) and clinic-referred (N = 303) youth sample, the authors developed a 25-item shortened version of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) using Schmid-Leiman exploratory bifactor analysis to reduce client burden and administration time and thus improve the transportability characteristics of this youth anxiety and depression measure. Results reveal...

OBJECTIVES To develop and validate brief scales to measure common emotional and behavioural problems among adolescents in the examination-oriented education system and collectivistic culture of China. SETTING Middle schools in Hunan province. PARTICIPANTS 5442 middle school students aged 11-19 years were sampled. 4727 valid questionnaires were collected and used for validation of the scales...

The National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE) in Japan awards academic degrees based on the accumulation of credits. An applicant who wishes to be awarded a degree from NIAD-UEmust classify his credits according to pre-determined criteria for each disciplinary field. The criteria are constructed by several items. A sub-committee of experts in the relevant fie...

OBJECTIVES Hippocampal dysfunction has been proposed as a mechanism for memory deficits in schizophrenia. Available evidence suggests that the anterior and posterior hippocampus could be differentially affected. Accordingly, we used fMRI to test the hypothesis that activity in posterior hippocampus is disproportionately reduced in schizophrenia, particularly during spatial memory retrieval. M...

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) could be seen as a theory in qualitative more than in qualitative stud- ies. This might have led to difficulty in doing CDA. Accordingly, this study attempted to develop a quan- titative profile in the form of an analytic rubric. For this purpose, Fairclough’s model of CDA was select- ed as the research framework. The techniques used for structuring analy...