The Personal Experiences Checklist (PECK) was developed to provide a multidimensional assessment of a young person's personal experience of being bullied that covered the full range of bullying behaviors, including covert relational forms of bullying and cyber bullying. A sample of 647 school children were used to develop the scale, and a 2nd sample of 218 children completed the PECK and a batt...

BACKGROUND Recent studies suggest an underlying three- or four-factor structure explains the conceptual overlap and distinctiveness of several negative emotionality and pain-related constructs. However, the validity of these latent factors for predicting pain has not been examined. METHODS A cohort of 189 (99 female, 90 male) healthy volunteers completed eight self-report negative emotionalit...

This paper reports the effect of functional roles on computer-supported collaborative learning. Thirtythree students in ten groups, equally distributed over two research conditions (role versus nonrole), returned an evaluation questionnaire assessing their computer-supported collaborative learning experience. Principal axis factoring revealed a latent variable interpreted as: perceived group ef...

OBJECTIVE Delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD) is a condition in which patients often fall asleep some hours after midnight and have difficulty waking up in the morning. Circadian chronotype questionnaires such as Horne-Östberg Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) and Basic Language Morningness (BALM) scale have been used for screening for DSPD. This study was to evaluate these two chrono...

AIMS The aims of this study are to develop and validate a measure to screen for a range of gambling-related cognitions (GRC) in gamblers. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS A total of 968 volunteers were recruited from a community-based population. They were divided randomly into two groups. Principal axis factoring with varimax rotation was performed on group one and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) ...

BACKGROUND Iran is a developing and Islamic country where the consumption of alcoholic beverages is banned. However, psychiatric disorders and alcohol use disorders are often co-occurring. We used the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) to estimate the prevalence of alcohol use and examined the psychometric properties of the test among psychiatric outpatients in Teheran, Iran. M...

BACKGROUND Although telephone services continue to play an important role in the delivery of front-line crisis support, published evidence of the standardized assessment of such services does not exist to date. AIMS To describe the development of the Telephone Crisis Support Skills Scale (TCSSS), an instrument to assess workers' intentions to use recommended skills with callers, and to evalua...

EVERYDAY MEMORY: AN EXPANDED VIEW OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICALMEMORY FUNCTIONSbyJANA RANSONMay 2014Advisor: Dr. Joseph M. FitzgeraldMajor: PsychologyDegree: Master of ArtsThe current study investigated an expanded set of everyday autobiographical memory(AM) functions as proposed by developers of the 7-function Child-Caregiver ReminiscenceScale (CRS) (Kulkofsky...