abstract introduction: scl-90-r inventory is used for screening and assessing effect of some treatment. its sensitivity depended on environmental factors there are many shortcomings of its normalization in our community. objective: to normalize scl-90-r inventory in guilan high-school students in the years of 2003-2004. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 4015 subjects were selec...

this study aims to assess the validity and reliability of the persian version of simons and gaher's distress tolerance scale(dts) by administering it to nicotine dependent students of tehran university.in a descriptive cross-sectional study, 317 nicotine dependent students of tehran university who were selected, using available sampling method, completed dts, coping with stress- revised(cs-r), ...

objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the persian version of chicago multi-scale depression inventory (cmdi) in iranian subjects. method: cmdi was translated into persian according to the standard method. two hundred and sixty two medical students (of whom, 114 were re-tested 5-10 days after the first test), archibald 40 patients with major depressive e...

objective: the psychometric properties and factor structure of the persian padua inventory washington state university revision (pi-wsur), a measure of obsessive- compulsive phenomena, was examined in a non-clinical sample of 348 iranian university students. method: the pi-wsur was translated into persian, and its back translation was controlled by the author inventory. a pilot study based on c...

Psychological tests are intended to measure individual differences. One of the first things most people associate with psychology is testing. You can find some kind of "psychological test" in popular magazines, which claim to measure everything from your intelligence or your personality to how good a lover you are. Such tests can be described as "pop tests.” Most people have also heard of and m...

objective: the purpose of this study was to adopt the binge eating scale (bes) among the iranian obese population. methods: bes and a semi-structured interview based on dsm-iv criteria for binge eating disorder were administered among 60 obese subjects aged 20 to 50 years. in order to evaluate test-retest reliability, 30 obese subjects were asked to complete the bes again 9 to 20 days later. in...