Simone Tavolucci, Guido Alessandri, Nancy Eisenberg, Lorenzo Filosa, Valentina Sommovigo, Valentina Rosa
{"title":"Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy in Managing Negative Emotions at Work: A Validation Study.","authors":"Simone Tavolucci, Guido Alessandri, Nancy Eisenberg, Lorenzo Filosa, Valentina Sommovigo, Valentina Rosa","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2535609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2025.2535609","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, we present three studies designed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Regulatory Emotional Self-efficacy Scale at Work (RESE-W). In Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 1735), we tested and confirmed a bifactorial structure comprised of one general and two specific dimensions across the six scale items. In Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 211), we investigated the relations of the RESE-W with emotional dynamics at work by estimating its associations with emotional variability, inertia, granularity, and baseline levels. In Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 294), we examined the scale's convergent and external validity, as well as the incremental predictive value of the RESE-W compared to other measures of emotional regulation abilities. Results supported the validity of the instrument and its utility in predicting individuals' emotional functioning within applied settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144731898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
François S de Kock, Velichko H Fetvadjiev, E Damiano D'Urso, Reinout E de Vries
{"title":"The Dispositional Insight Test: Structure and Validity Across Cultures.","authors":"François S de Kock, Velichko H Fetvadjiev, E Damiano D'Urso, Reinout E de Vries","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2520277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2025.2520277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Dispositional Insight Test (DIT) is designed to assess a person's knowledge representations of personality and behavior expressions in different situational contexts. Despite its usefulness for professionals who regularly assess people, the factor structure of the DIT and measurement properties in different national populations have yet to be tested. Here, we report on the dimensionality and cross-cultural equivalence of the full and short Dispositional Insight Test (DIT and DIT-S), a novel measure of an important but understudied concept. Participants were students and their acquaintances in three countries from distinct world regions (<i>n</i> = 817 in the Netherlands, 434 in New Zealand, and 437 in South Africa), who completed the test online. Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis for categorical outcomes supported a higher order dimensional structure comprising three factors: trait induction, trait extrapolation, and trait contextualization. Invariance testing showed this structure to be equivalent across the three cultural groups. The DIT exhibited expected correlations with cognitive ability. Future cross-cultural research on the DIT and its correlates is invited.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144707747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen L Aita, Emily L Montgomery, Joshua E Caron, Louis A Pagano, Michael J Broggi, Paul B Ingram, Steven C Erickson, Nicholas C Borgogna, Grant G Moncrief, Robert M Roth, Matthew R Calamia, Patrick Armistead-Jehle, Benjamin D Hill
{"title":"Multivariate Base Rates of Standard- and Skyline-Cutoff Elevations on the Personality Assessment Inventory: Do They Distinguish Simulated from Genuine PTSD?","authors":"Stephen L Aita, Emily L Montgomery, Joshua E Caron, Louis A Pagano, Michael J Broggi, Paul B Ingram, Steven C Erickson, Nicholas C Borgogna, Grant G Moncrief, Robert M Roth, Matthew R Calamia, Patrick Armistead-Jehle, Benjamin D Hill","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2530047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2025.2530047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multivariate base rates (MBR) of elevations are an emerging psychometric paradigm for enhanced interpretation of multiscale self-report data. The aims of this study were to calculate and compare MBR of scale/subscale elevations on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) and determine the ability of MBR to differentiate between mood disorders (<i>n</i> = 524, <i>k</i> = 3), military-based posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; <i>n</i> = 252, <i>k</i> = 2), and coached PTSD-simulator (<i>n</i> = 160, <i>k</i> = 1) groups. Overall, having <i>at least</i> one standard (<i>T</i> ≥ 70) and skyline elevation on clinical scales and clinical subscales was common across the groups. However, differential abnormal elevation thresholds emerged for each group. For instance, it was <i>unusual</i> (i.e., MBR < 10%) for the mood disorders group to have ≥ 1 (9.7%) and for the genuine PTSD group to have ≥ 3 (9.1%) skyline-elevated clinical scales. For subscales, it was <i>unusual</i> for the mood and PTSD groups to have ≥ 3 (7.6%) and ≥ 7 (8.3%) skyline-elevated clinical subscales, respectively. Conversely, PTSD simulators commonly yielded profiles with standard- and skyline elevations on nearly all clinical scales and subscales. MBR cutoffs identified from receiver-operating characteristic curve analyses yielded robust sensitivity (.650-.806) and specificity (.833-.984) in differentiating genuine PTSD and mood disorder groups from PTSD simulators. MBR are useful in differentiating genuine from simulated psychopathology, consistent with broader scale-based infrequency approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144675091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliability and Validity of the DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure in Japan: Insights into General and Specific Psychiatric Symptom Assessment.","authors":"Takafumi Soda, Asako Toyama, Mizuho Takeda, Yoshihiko Kunisato, Yuichi Yamashita","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2527702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2025.2527702","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The dimensional approach to psychiatric symptoms, including the general psychopathology factor (<i>p</i>-factor), has gained increasing attention for its potential to elucidate pathophysiology and inform treatment. However, comprehensive assessment of transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms remains particularly challenging, especially in Japan. The DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure (DSM-XC) was developed to capture a broad spectrum of symptoms across disorders, yet its validity in assessing both specific symptoms and the <i>p</i>-factor remains underexplored. This study examined the reliability and validity of the DSM-XC in a general population sample in Japan. The results demonstrated that the total DSM-XC score exhibited high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent validity with self-reported psychiatric measures. However, item-level analysis revealed that several items had low test-retest reliability. Moreover, factor analysis indicated that the DSM-XC primarily captures internalizing symptoms rather than general psychopathology. These findings suggest that while the DSM-XC may serve as an indirect indicator of the <i>p</i>-factor, its ability to directly measure the <i>p</i>-factor itself and assess specific symptoms requires further scrutiny. Although the DSM-XC provides a convenient tool for partly evaluating general and specific symptoms, its limitations underscore the need for further refinement to achieve a more comprehensive assessment of psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144600832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Blötner, Bojana M Dinić, Andrew Denovan, Neil Dagnall, Petar Krstić, Kostas A Papageorgiou, Cassidy Trahair, Rachel A Plouffe
{"title":"The Machiavellian Approach and Avoidance Questionnaire: Further Validation and Evidence of Cross-National Validity.","authors":"Christian Blötner, Bojana M Dinić, Andrew Denovan, Neil Dagnall, Petar Krstić, Kostas A Papageorgiou, Cassidy Trahair, Rachel A Plouffe","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2431123","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2431123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers on antagonistic personality traits debate about an appropriate measurement approach to Machiavellianism. One measure intended to resolve this discourse, the Machiavellian Approach and Avoidance Questionnaire (MAAQ), distinguishes motivational aspects of Machiavellianism (https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001069). Machiavellian Approach reflects strategic striving for advantages (even at others' expense), and Machiavellian Avoidance encompasses misanthropically driven prevention of loss. Using two German samples (<i>n</i><sub>total</sub> = 1,583; 63% women), evidence from our first study confirmed assumed relations between both facets and disagreeableness, as well as Machiavellian approach with dominance seeking, and Machiavellian avoidance with mistrust. However, the nomological networks of Machiavellian approach and measures of subclinical psychopathy were almost identical in both samples. Thus, the MAAQ failed to sufficiently differentiate from subclinical psychopathy. In a second study, partial scalar cross-national invariance was established across samples from Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, and Serbia (<i>n</i><sub>total</sub> = 1,853). Thereby, participants from Germany scored lower in Machiavellian approach compared to other samples, lower in Machiavellian avoidance compared to samples from the United Kingdom and Canada, but higher compared to the Serbian sample. Overall, findings supported cross-national equivalence of the MAAQ but undermined construct validity.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"463-475"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142770043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing and Improving Personality Inventories Using Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Psychometric Properties of a Short HEXACO Scale Developed Using ChatGPT 4.0.","authors":"Ard J Barends, Reinout E de Vries","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2444454","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2444454","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the current study, we investigated the utility of generative AI for survey development and improvement. To do so, we generated a 24-item HEXACO personality inventory using ChatGPT 4.0, the ChatGPT HEXACO inventory (CHI), and investigated whether ChatGPT could modify the CHI to either improve its internal consistency or its content validity. Additionally, we compared the psychometric properties of the different versions of the CHI to a conceptually similar short personality inventory. Specifically, we compared the three CHI versions with the Brief HEXACO inventory (BHI) in terms of their alpha reliabilities and their convergent and discriminant correlations with the HEXACO-60 and criterion-related validity with authoritarianism and social dominance orientation. Participants <i>(N</i> = 682) completed the BHI and HEXACO-60 and were randomly assigned to complete one of the three CHI versions. The results showed generally comparable psychometric properties of the three CHI versions and the BHI. However, ChatGPT could not improve specific psychometric properties of the CHI. That is, although the results show promise for the use of ChatGPT in developing questionnaires, it may not offer a shortcut to further improve specific psychometric properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"419-425"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142895422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha J Kurus, Marcus T Boccaccini, Jorge G Varela, Ramona M Noland
{"title":"Evaluator Disagreement about the Association between Psychopathy Checklist-Revised Scores and Risk for Future Sexual Violence.","authors":"Samantha J Kurus, Marcus T Boccaccini, Jorge G Varela, Ramona M Noland","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2433513","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2433513","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is common for forensic evaluators to use assessment instruments in risk assessment evaluations. This study examines whether different evaluators use instrument results the same way when coming to conclusions about risk for sexual recidivism in Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) evaluations. Three evaluators who each used both the Static-99R and Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in more than 60 SVP evaluations (Total <i>N</i> = 338) provided data for the study. There were clear evaluator differences in how instrument scores were associated with risk opinions. For one evaluator, multiple regression results revealed that PCL-R Facet 2 (Affective) and Facet 3 (Lifestyle) scores were the only statistically significant predictors of risk. In other words, this evaluator's risk opinions were more clearly associated with scores on a psychopathy measure (PCL-R) than scores on a measure specifically designed to assess risk (Static-99R). For another evaluator, only Static-99R scores were independent predictors of risk. For the final evaluator, Static-99R scores and, to a lesser extent, PCL-R Facet 2 scores were independent predictors of risk. These findings add to the growing body of research suggesting that forensic evaluation results can depend, to a non-trivial extent, on the specific evaluator conducting the evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"453-462"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142786192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice (DEISJ): Increasing the Utility of Personality Assessment.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2504799","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2025.2504799","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"544-545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144094089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotion Acceptance Questionnaire (EAQ): Factor Analysis and Psychometric Evaluation.","authors":"Michael A Kisley, Thomas Beblo, Andrew Lac","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2444448","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2444448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion acceptance is defined as the willingness to experience pleasant and unpleasant emotions. Extant research suggests that emotion acceptance-and its converse, emotion nonacceptance or rejection-importantly contributes to experiences of negative affect, symptoms of psychopathology, and physiological markers of emotional responding. However, no validated measurement scale is available in English for assessing emotion acceptance. The current research involved factor analysis and validation of the Emotion Acceptance Questionnaire (EAQ), drawing from items translated from a German scale (<i>FrAGe</i>). In Study 1, exploratory factor analysis (<i>N</i> = 346) revealed four correlated factors: Reject Unpleasant Emotion, Reject Pleasant Emotion, Accept Unpleasant Emotion, and Accept Pleasant Emotion. In Study 2, confirmatory factor analysis on another sample (<i>N</i> = 413) corroborated the four-factor measurement structure. Internal reliability coefficients of the subscales were satisfactory or higher. Preliminary convergent and discriminant validities were established by examining the extent the four EAQ subscales correlated with previously validated measures of emotion regulation, mindfulness skills, life satisfaction, and positive and negative affect. This psychometric investigation offers a novel multidimensional instrument to help conceptualize, understand, and facilitate the assessment of emotional acceptance in future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"516-529"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142978836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Reported Spite Predicts Spiteful Behavior in an Online Crowd-Sourced Sample.","authors":"David S Gordon, Megan E Birney","doi":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2429489","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00223891.2024.2429489","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spiteful behavior, where one is willing to harm oneself to harm another, is a common social behavior that is associated with social competition. However, there is currently only one well-used psychological measure that claims to measure spitefulness, the Spitefulness Scale (Marcus et al., 2014). At present, there is little research investigating whether spite, as measured by this scale, is associated with spiteful decision-making. To test this relationship, we asked a UK sample (<i>N</i> = 113; 51% female, M<sup>age</sup> = 38) to play a Joy of Destruction game before completing the Spitefulness Scale. Participant scores on the scale predicted whether participants spent any non-zero amount on destroying the resources of others and the amount spent by those who chose destruction. The results add further support to the validity of the Spitefulness Scale as a predictor of spiteful behavior, and suggests its utility can expand to data collected <i>via</i> online crowd-sourcing.</p>","PeriodicalId":16707,"journal":{"name":"Journal of personality assessment","volume":" ","pages":"476-485"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142687293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}