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{"title":"Relating objective and subjective assessment of working memory in school-age children: A review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Laree B Foster, Donna C Perazzo, Scott L Decker","doi":"10.1037/pas0001430","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pas0001430","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Working memory plays an important role in learning and is a critical component of evaluations for children and adolescents suspected of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Evaluations often include both objective (i.e., performance-based) as well as subjective (i.e., rating-based) assessments of working memory. However, the degree of correspondence between these different methods is unclear. The present study evaluated the relationship between these two working memory assessment methods in school-age children using a multilevel meta-analytic approach. An overall estimated effect size of r = -0.23 was obtained based on 98 correlations from 36 studies. Objective measures of working memory had a higher correspondence with teacher ratings (r = -0.34) than with parent ratings (r = -0.21) and self-report ratings (r = -0.11). Moderator analyses revealed a stronger correlation between objective measures and teacher ratings for children in nonclinical samples than clinical samples. Potential explanations and clinical implications for evaluators are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":"38 8","pages":"547-561"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148631405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychometric validation of the Italian State Urge to Be Physically Active Questionnaire in eating disorders: Psychopathology correlates and diagnostic differences.","authors":"Margherita Boltri,Carolina Gabutti,Federico Brusa,Giulia Cera,Valentina Villa,Ilaria Bastoni,Sara Ducale,Francesca Manzo,Alberto Scalia,Emanuela Apicella,Sandra Savino,Gianluca Castelnuovo,Leonardo Mendolicchio","doi":"10.1037/pas0001495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001495","url":null,"abstract":"Alongside excessive physical activity, individuals with eating disorders (EDs) frequently report a heightened urge to move and physical restlessness, which may contribute to both somatic and psychological burden. The State Urge to be Physically Active Questionnaire (SUPA-Q) specifically measures this acute, state-like dimension in ED patients, but a validated Italian version is not yet available. Two hundred thirty-three inpatients (93.6% female; Mage = 31.7 ± 14.3) formally diagnosed with EDs completed the SUPAQ-I alongside measures of compulsive exercise, exercise addiction, impulsivity, and ED psychopathology. Psychometric evaluation covered item performance, internal consistency, confirmatory factor analysis, convergent/divergent validity, sensitivity to change, and exploratory clinical cutoffs. Paired-samples t tests assessed score changes. SUPAQ-I scores demonstrated excellent reliability (α = .958, ω = 0.959) and good factorial validity. Scores significantly positively correlated with ED severity (drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction, overcontrol) and negatively with body mass index. Post hoc analyses revealed higher scores occurring in anorexia nervosa compared to binge-eating disorder, which decreased significantly over hospitalization, findings that are consistent with sensitivity to clinical change. High scores predominated in restrictive anorexia nervosa subtypes. Overall, findings support the psychometric adequacy of SUPAQ-I score interpretations for measuring acute movement urges in EDs. It appeared to capture an affect-driven and state-related dimension of movement urges related to, but not fully explained by, existing trait-based exercise measures and showed sensitive to clinical change. Further research is needed to refine cutoffs and examine the generalizability of these findings across populations and settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148565037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD): Factor structure and convergent discriminant validity in 14- to 19-year-old middle-to-upper-income adolescents.","authors":"Randall T Salekin,Ellie K Collins,Harriet R DeGroot,Robert D Hare,Andrew P Bontemps,Blair D Batky,Craig S Neumann","doi":"10.1037/pas0001496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001496","url":null,"abstract":"The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD; Salekin & Hare, 2016) self-report scale measures psychopathic traits and conduct disorder in children and adolescents. The present study tested the psychometric properties of the PSCD in a sample of middle-to-upper-income adolescents (N = 286, Mage = 15.40; SD = 1.21). Specifically, we tested the factor structure (one-, two-, three-, and four-factor models), convergent and discriminant validity, and criterion-related validity of the PSCD. As expected, we found that a four-factor PSCD model best fit the data. In addition, we found that the PSCD subfactors were intercorrelated, demonstrated good reliability, exhibited good convergent validity with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-based disruptive behavior disorders (i.e., conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and pertinent personality constructs (i.e., assured-dominant, cold-hearted), and demonstrated good discriminant validity with internalizing disorders (i.e., anxiety and depression) and relevant personality dimensions (i.e., warm-agreeable). Criterion-related validity analyses showed that the PSCD demonstrated the hypothesized relations with parenting practices, peer functioning, prosociality, relational aggression, antisocial conduct, substance use, impersonal/unsafe sex, and unsafe driving practices. The prevalence rate for elevated PSCD scores in this sample was found to be 3.4%. Findings indicate that the PSCD measure may help to advance our understanding of psychopathic personality specifiers for conduct disorder in middle-to-upper-income adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148565041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing dynamic violence risk in youth: Updated risk levels and recidivism estimates for the Violence Risk Scale-Youth Version.","authors":"Keira C Stockdale, Mark E Olver, L Myles Ferguson, Kristine M Lovatt, Stephen C P Wong","doi":"10.1037/pas0001488","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pas0001488","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study examined the development of updated risk levels and recidivism rates for the Violence Risk Scale-Youth Version (VRS-YV), a dynamic violence risk assessment and treatment planning tool, in a diverse Canadian sample of 404 court-adjudicated youth followed up an average of 8.6 years in the community. VRS-YV scores and those from a set of convergent measures of risk and protection were obtained from Court and Treatment file ratings; recidivism outcomes were obtained from criminal records. The distribution, discrimination, and calibration properties of VRS-YV scores were examined among Indigenous ethnoracial and gender groups to inform the development of evidence-based risk levels and violent recidivism rates associated with VRS-YV scores, applying the common language five-level framework. VRS-YV dynamic and total scores demonstrated good discrimination with medium to large effects in the prediction of violent and general recidivism across Gender × Ethnoracial groups. VRS-YV score percentile ranks and hazard ratios were used to identify numeric score cutoffs to inform risk categories, while violent recidivism rates associated with VRS-YV score categories were generated from logistic regression. Discrimination findings suggested common numeric score risk band cutoffs across gender and ethnoracial groups, while calibration findings suggested gender stratified violent recidivism norms and minor variations in labeling the uppermost risk categories for female youth. Convergent validity analyses supported the construct validity of the five risk levels. Implications for using the common language-based framework with the VRS-YV to drive risk management and violent prevention efforts as a function of gender and ethnocultural heritage are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148520769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measurement invariance of obsessive-compulsive disorder self-report measures in sexual and gender minority individuals.","authors":"Caitlin M Pinciotti, Miranda L Higham, Juliana E Avery, Andrew D Wiese, Samuel D Spencer, Jennie M Kuckertz, Martha J Falkenstein, Katie Kriegshauser, Brian A Feinstein, Andreas Bezahler, Eric A Storch","doi":"10.1037/pas0001490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001490","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals comprise up to one fifth of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) clinical samples and appear to be at greater risk for OCD than their cisgender, heterosexual peers. Recent research has examined the psychometric properties of several commonly used OCD self-report measures within an SGM sample and found them adequate to strong in terms of factor structure and loadings, internal consistency, and convergent validity. However, measurement invariance testing is needed to ensure that these measures perform similarly across individuals of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. The present study combined data from 779 patients (15.0% SGM) presenting for OCD treatment at one of two clinical sites offering specialized treatment from outpatient through residential levels of care. The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44, and the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale-Self-Report Severity Scale were subjected to confirmatory factor analyses and invariance tests across varying levels of stringency between SGM and non-SGM patients. Whereas the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale and Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 evidenced measurement invariance, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale-Self-Report did not demonstrate configural invariance between SGM and non-SGM patients. Findings offer support for the use of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale and Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 in samples inclusive of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, and recommendations for continued research in this domain are offered. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148520741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of youth-caregiver discrepancies in reports of internalizing and externalizing behavior in forensic clinical decision making about youth involved in the justice system.","authors":"Elisabeth J Leroux, Tracey A Skilling, Michael C Seto","doi":"10.1037/pas0001476","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pas0001476","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multi-informant assessments are considered the gold standard in the assessment of youth psychopathology. Although best practice dictates that this approach should extend to the assessment of youth involved in the justice system, few studies have examined the effect of multiple informants in a forensic context. Using a sample of 580 youth-caregiver dyads, we conducted a series of polynomial regressions to test whether statistical interactions between scores on the Youth Self-Report and scores on the Child Behavior Checklist (completed by caregivers) predicted psychiatric diagnoses. Psychiatric diagnoses were coded from the youth's final forensic assessment report and included anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. A significant interaction was found when modeling the effect of youth-caregiver reports of rule-breaking behavior on receiving a conduct disorder diagnosis, and when modeling the effect of youth-caregiver reports of aggressive behavior on receiving an attention-deficit hyperactivity diagnosis. No significant interactions were found when modeling the effect of youth-caregiver reports of internalizing symptomology on receiving an anxiety or depressive disorder diagnosis. Results suggest that youth and caregiver reports are integrated differently depending on whether the clinician is making an internalizing or externalizing spectrum diagnosis. Study implications for forensic assessments with multiple informants are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148520788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A real-time examination and comparison of differentiation among suicidal thinking and affect items in an adolescent sample.","authors":"Elizabeth A Edershile, Kinjal K Patel, Annabelle M Mournet, Richard T Liu, Catherine R Glenn, Evan M Kleiman","doi":"10.1037/pas0001489","DOIUrl":"10.1037/pas0001489","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Suicide risk assessments require individuals to differentiate among types of suicidal thoughts (e.g., passive vs. active); yet most research relies on aggregate metrics that obscure this differentiation. Indeed, more severe forms of suicidal thinking are thought to involve the simultaneous experience of multiple forms of thoughts at high intensities. The present study draws on concepts from the affect differentiation literature to (a) examine different ways to operationalize differentiation in suicidal thinking and (b) compare differentiation in suicidal thinking with differentiation in affect. Adolescents (<i>N</i> = 200) recently hospitalized for suicidal thoughts and behaviors completed a 28-day ecological momentary assessment protocol assessing positive affect, negative affect, and suicidal thinking. The sample was 53% White, 21% Black, 13.5% multiracial, and 23% Hispanic/Latino; 52.5% identified as cisgender female, 17.5% cisgender male, 11.0% transgender, and 10% as genderqueer, nonbinary, or genderfluid. Differentiation in suicidal thinking was examined through three metrics: standard deviation (measuring item dispersion), Gini coefficient (measuring item inequality), and emodiversity (measuring item diversity and prevalence). Results revealed consistent positive associations between suicidal thinking differentiation and negative affect differentiation. When examining only occasions in which suicidal thinking was present, suicidal thinking differentiation was associated with increased differentiation in both positive and negative affect, beyond mean levels. Effect sizes ranged from small to large with narrow confidence intervals. Differences across metrics suggest that future research should carefully consider how to operationalize differentiation in the context of the specific data structure. Suicidal thinking differentiation represents a meaningful framework capturing clinically relevant heterogeneity in high-risk adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13390774/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148520800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supplemental Material for Convergence Between Task Performance Scores, Researcher Observations, and Parent Ratings of Executive Functions and Emotion Regulation in Neurodiverse Toddlers at 20 Months","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/pas0001469.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001469.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148589117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supplemental Material for Emotional Distress or Executive Dysfunction? What Is the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function–Adult Self-Report Scale Actually Assessing in an Assessment-Seeking Postsecondary Sample?","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/pas0001433.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001433.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":"268 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148589116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supplemental Material for Psychometric Validation of the Italian State Urge to Be Physically Active Questionnaire in Eating Disorders: Psychopathology Correlates and Diagnostic Differences","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/pas0001495.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001495.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20770,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Assessment","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148589114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}