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Aware of the future? Development and validation of the Futures Consciousness Scale.
Futures Consciousness refers to the capacity that a person has for understanding, anticipating, and preparing for the future. Although the concept is widely used in the field of futures research, no quantitative tool exists yet that assesses it. Drawing from a recent five-dimensional model that considers Time perspective, Agency beliefs, Openness to alternatives, Systems perception, and Concern for others as interrelated sub-dimensions of a general construct of Futures Consciousness, we developed a composite 20-item scale that measures Futures Consciousness as an interindividual difference. The psychometric properties of t...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An advanced measure of moral sensitivity in business.
Moral sensitivity, understood as an individual’s capability of identifying and ascribing importance to moral issues when they arise, is often considered a key competence in professional life and a precondition of ethical behavior. With a focus on business settings, this article presents a new measure to assess individual’s sensitivity to moral and business values. The measure was developed using a vignette-based domain-specific approach and validated in two studies. In Study 1, we compared our instrument and various convergent and divergent scales to obtain the first evidence of the construct validity of the instrument...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Measuring test anxiety in primary and middle school children: Psychometric evaluation of the Test Anxiety Questionnaire for Children (TAQ-C).
This study aimed to contribute to the extant literature on the assessment of TA by examining the psychometric properties of the Test Anxiety Questionnaire for Children (TAQ-C), in primary and middle school children. In Study 1 (N = 123), we selected 24 items from a wider initial pool, dividing them into scales measuring Thoughts, Autonomic Reactions, Off-Task Behaviors, and Social Derogation, to develop the TAQ-C. In Study 2 (N = 899), the psychometric properties of this set of scales were assessed in students attending primary and middle school. Analyses supported the bifactor latent structure of the TAQ-C, invariance acr...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reducing the length of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support.
The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) is a widely used 12-item measure that assesses perceived social support from three sources: friends, family, and significant others. Previously published psychometric properties indicate that a shorter version of this scale may adequately assess perceived social support and reduce participant burden. The current studies sought to develop such a reduced scale across two studies. Study 1 examined a sample of spouses of US military personnel (N = 5,436) randomly separated into exploratory and confirmatory samples. In the exploratory sample, we developed a 6-item r...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Short form of the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-L9) in the US, Germany, and Russia: Psychometric properties and cross-cultural measurement invariance test.
Validation of a 9-item version of the Sense of Coherence Scale (SOC-L9) and testing its cross-national measurement invariance and latent mean differences in representative samples from the United States of America (US), Germany, and Russia. The psychometric properties of the SOC-L9 were tested with representative samples aged 18–100 years from the US (N = 2,972), Germany (N = 2,005), and Russia (N = 2,726). Both a model with a general factor and method effect of items with negative wording and a unidimensional model were tested for structure validity. Measurement equivalence and latent mean comparisons were conducted acr...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Clinical utility of the MMPI-2-RF hierarchical description: An illustration in Cluster C personality disorder patients.
Several studies have addressed the associations between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured form (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008) scale scores and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) Section II personality disorder (PD) criterion counts. While these studies showed which variables were associated with the PDs as well as their combined predictive potency, no information is available on mean patterns of elevation associated with these conditions. To illustrate how the MMPI-2-RF information may amplify categorical ...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Measuring dimensions of family interaction in adolescence: A multitrait–multimethod analysis.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the convergent and discriminant validity of adolescent and parent ratings of family interaction. Adolescent and parent ratings of democratic parenting, parental warmth, and adolescent free disclosure were measured using a multitrait–multimethod confirmatory factor analytic approach. Participants included 3,959 Swedish youth in seventh grade (average age 13 years), with follow-up measurements in eighth and ninth grades. At each grade, findings provided support for trait discriminant validity and discriminant validity of methods. However, findings failed to provide support for converge...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Development and validation of a German language unit-level Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) scale.
The current paper presents the development and validation of a unit-level Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) scale based on the Referent-Shift Consensus Model (RSCM). In Study 1, with 124 individuals measured twice, both an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) established and confirmed a five-factor solution (helping behavior, sportsmanship, loyalty, civic virtue, and conscientiousness). Test–retest reliabilities at a 2-month interval were high (between .59 and .79 for the subscales, .83 for the total scale). In Study 2, unit-level OCB was analyzed in a sample of 129 work team...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Validating the resource-Management Inventory (ReMI): Testing measurement invariance and predicting academic achievement in a sample of first-year university students.
There is substantial evidence that students in higher education who have sophisticated resource-management skills are more successful in their studies. Nevertheless, research shows that students are often not adequately prepared to use resource-management strategies effectively. It is thus crucial to screen and identify students who are at risk of poor resource management (and consequently, reduced academic achievement) to provide them with appropriate support. For this purpose, we extend the validation of a situational-judgment-based instrument called Resource-Management Inventory (ReMI), which assesses resource-managemen...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Perfectionism in a transdiagnostic context: An investigation of the criterion validity of the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised.
Despite recent claims that perfectionism is a transdiagnostic process, few studies have directly tested this hypothesis. We investigated the relationship between perfectionism measured by the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R) and the Axis I psychopathology (affective and anxiety disorders) using a transdiagnostic approach. Adult participants (N = 450, 78% females, Mage = 33 years) completed a series of online self-report measures of perfectionism, anxiety, and depression for this cross-sectional study. The results support a linear relationship between the Discrepancy subscale of APS-R and anxiety/affective psychopatholo...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The development and validation of an Interest and Skill Inventory on Educational Choices (ISEC).
This study aimed at developing and validating a new instrument to facilitate late adolescents and young adults to choose a higher education major. For the main study, the sample consisted of 6,215 late adolescents and young adults (Mage = 19.50, SD = 1.89, 42.3% female). After rational scale construction based on the RIASEC model of Holland (1997), several statistical analyses were conducted. In four studies, structural validity, internal consistency, and construct validity were examined. Our analyses showed that adequate structural validity, internal consistency, and construct validity were established. A 7-factor structu...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - November 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Validation of the Procrastination at Work Scale: A seven-language study.
This study investigates the psychometric characteristics of the Procrastination at Work Scale (PAWS) among 1,028 office employees from seven countries, namely, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Specifically, it was aimed to test the measurement invariance of the PAWS and explore its discriminant validity by examining its relationships with work engagement and performance. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis shows that the basic factor structure and item loadings of the PAWS are invariant across countries. Furthermore, the two subdimensions of procrastination at wo...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - November 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Predictive properties and factor structure of the VRS-SO in an Austrian sample.
We examined the structural and predictive properties of the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offense (VRS-SO) version in an Austrian sample of N = 666 men incarcerated for sexual offenses; 353 of whom were followed up an average of 11 years post-release. Results of a confirmatory factor analysis of dynamic item scores supported a three-factor model (Sexual Deviance, Criminality, and Treatment Responsivity) consistent with prior research. VRS-SO static, dynamic, and total scores showed good properties of discrimination for sexual (area under the receiver operating curve [AUC] = .68–.80) and violent (AUC = .65–.68) recidivism,...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - November 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Toward a better understanding of the mindsets of negotiators: Development and construct validation of the Scale for the Integrative Mindset (SIM).
This article introduces and discusses the 15-item Scale for the Integrative Mindset (SIM) of negotiators, that is of people involved in joint decision-making processes. The scale is based on the integrative mindset (Ade, Schuster, Harinck, & Trötschel, 2018), which describes a set of three inclinations of parties approaching negotiations: a collaborative, a curious, and a creative one. Using a first sample (N = 1,030) of online survey participants, we provide evidence for a high psychometric quality of the SIM as suggested by high reliabilities and good fit indices. We also compare the SIM with scales that measure well-kn...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - November 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Self-Report Symptom Inventory as an instrument for detecting symptom over-reporting: An exploratory study with instructed simulators.
The recently developed Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) intends to provide an alternative approach to the detection of symptom over-reporting. Unlike other measures, the SRSI includes both non-existent symptoms (i.e., pseudosymptoms) and genuine symptoms. Previous research using the German SRSI showed that people who exaggerate their complaints over-endorse both types of symptoms. In the current simulation experiment, we tested whether the Dutch and English SRSI are effective in identifying over-reporting by comparing SRSI scores of an honest group (n = 51) with those of two experimental simulator groups (pain, n = 54;...
Source: European Journal of Psychological Assessment - November 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research