{"title":"The Development and Validation of a Measure of Mental Health, Help-Seeking Beliefs in Arabic-Speaking Refugees.","authors":"Natalie Mastrogiovanni, Yulisha Byrow, Angela Nickerson","doi":"10.1177/10731911231220482","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911231220482","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite reporting elevated rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), refugees are less likely than other groups to seek psychological treatment. Relatively little attention has been paid to the role of negative help-seeking beliefs in influencing treatment uptake. The current study sought to develop and psychometrically validate a novel measure indexing negative help-seeking beliefs for refugees (Help-Seeking Beliefs Scale [HSBS]). In this study, 262 Arabic-speaking refugee participants completed an online survey consisting of the HSBS along with measures indexing similar constructs (self-stigma of PTSD and help-seeking, perceived stigma, negative help-seeking attitudes, and help-seeking intentions). Factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure aligning with key themes identified in the literature: (a) Fear of Negative Consequences, (b) Inappropriateness, and (c) Perceived Necessity. The scale demonstrated excellent internal consistency, convergent validity, and predicted reduced help-seeking intentions. Results support the utility of a novel measure capturing a prominent help-seeking barrier in a population with high psychopathology and low treatment uptake.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1359-1377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11408969/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139073304","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-02-04DOI: 10.1177/10731911231225197
Álvaro Postigo, Covadonga González-Nuevo, Jaime García-Fernández, Eduardo García-Cueto, Christopher J Soto, Christopher M Napolitano, Brent W Roberts, Marcelino Cuesta
{"title":"The Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory: A Spanish Adaptation and Further Validation in Adult Population.","authors":"Álvaro Postigo, Covadonga González-Nuevo, Jaime García-Fernández, Eduardo García-Cueto, Christopher J Soto, Christopher M Napolitano, Brent W Roberts, Marcelino Cuesta","doi":"10.1177/10731911231225197","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911231225197","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills encompass a broad range of interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities that are crucial for establishing and maintaining relationships, managing emotions, setting and pursuing goals, and exploring new learning opportunities. To address the lack of consensus regarding terminology, definition, and assessment of SEB skills, Soto et al. developed the Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI), which consists of 192 items, 32 facets, and 5 domains. The objective of the current study was to adapt the BESSI to Spanish (referred to as BESSI-Sp) and enhance the overall understanding of the BESSI framework. A sample of 303 people was employed with a mean age of 30.35 years (<i>SD</i> = 14.73), ranging from 18 to 85 years. The results indicate that the BESSI-Sp demonstrates strong psychometric properties. Its facet- and domain-level structure aligns with the theoretical expectations and closely resembles the English-language source version. The facets exhibit high reliability (mean ω = .89), and the scores demonstrate adequate stability after 3 to 4 weeks (mean <i>r<sub>ICC</sub></i> = .77). The BESSI-Sp also displays evidence of convergent validity and integrates well with the Big Five framework, providing incremental validity for various outcomes. We discuss the implications of these findings for the assessment of SEB skills and future research in this field.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1525-1547"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139680625","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-01-27DOI: 10.1177/10731911231223120
Elise Grimm, Lea Francia, Stefan Agrigoroaei
{"title":"Stress Appraisal Measure: Investigating the Factor Structure and Validity in the French Language.","authors":"Elise Grimm, Lea Francia, Stefan Agrigoroaei","doi":"10.1177/10731911231223120","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911231223120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Stress Appraisal Measure (SAM) captures six different types of cognitive appraisals in anticipation of an upcoming stressful situation. The goal of this article was to examine the factorial structure and the validity of the scale in the French language while accounting for existing limitations in the literature. These include factorial structure instability and low internal consistency for specific subscales across multiple validation studies in other languages. In the first study (<i>N</i> = 425), the results from an exploratory factor analysis reliably suggested the removal of five items, the bridging of the threat and challenge subscales as one, and a new general five-factor structure. The new structure and its construct, convergent, and discriminant validity were confirmed in a second study (<i>N =</i> 308). We discuss the relevance of this five-factor scale for the studies focused on individual differences in stress and appraisals.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1452-1471"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139569673","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2023-12-31DOI: 10.1177/10731911231213849
Melissa G Wolf, Alexander J Denison
{"title":"Survey Uses May Influence Survey Responses.","authors":"Melissa G Wolf, Alexander J Denison","doi":"10.1177/10731911231213849","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911231213849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Traditional validation processes for psychological surveys tend to focus on analyzing item responses instead of the cognitive processes that participants use to generate these responses. When screening for invalid responses, researchers typically focus on participants who manipulate their answers for personal gain or respond carelessly. In this paper, we introduce a new invalid response process, discordant responding, that arises when participants disagree with the use of the survey and discuss similarities and differences between this response style and protective responding. Results show that nearly all participants reflect on the intended uses of an assessment when responding to items and may decline to respond or modify their responses if they are not comfortable with the way the results will be used. Incidentally, we also find that participants may misread survey instructions if they are not interactive. We introduce a short screener to detect invalid responses, the discordant response identifiers (DRI), which provides researchers with a simple validity tool to use when validating surveys. Finally, we provide recommendations about how researchers may use these findings to design surveys that reduce this response manipulation in the first place.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1378-1397"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139073303","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-01-13DOI: 10.1177/10731911231223715
Sumeyra Sahbaz, Ronald B Cox, Pablo Montero-Zamora, Christopher P Salas-Wright, Mildred M Maldonado-Molina, Melissa M Bates, Augusto Pérez-Gómez, Juliana Mejía-Trujillo, Saskia R Vos, Carolina Scaramutti, Patrizia A Perazzo, Maria Duque, Maria Fernanda Garcia, Eric C Brown, Seth J Schwartz
{"title":"Measuring Anxiety Among Latino Immigrant Populations: Within-Country and Between-Country Comparisons.","authors":"Sumeyra Sahbaz, Ronald B Cox, Pablo Montero-Zamora, Christopher P Salas-Wright, Mildred M Maldonado-Molina, Melissa M Bates, Augusto Pérez-Gómez, Juliana Mejía-Trujillo, Saskia R Vos, Carolina Scaramutti, Patrizia A Perazzo, Maria Duque, Maria Fernanda Garcia, Eric C Brown, Seth J Schwartz","doi":"10.1177/10731911231223715","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911231223715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anxiety is the most prevalent mental health disorder among adults worldwide. Given its increased prevalence among migrants due to their marginalized position in the societies where they reside, psychometric evaluations of anxiety measures such as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) are needed for use with migrants. The present study is the first attempt to compare the structure of GAD-7 scores for (a) different Latino groups in the same country and (b) the same Latino group in two different countries. Using three samples of Mexican and Venezuelan migrants (total <i>N</i> = 933), we provide reliability and validity evidence of the GAD-7 for use with adult Latino migrants. Utilizing confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory, we demonstrate that the GAD-7 is internally consistent, possesses a strong single-factor structure, and generates scores with equivalent psychometric properties. GAD-7 is appropriate for use with Mexican and Venezuelan migrants across differing gender groups and education levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1414-1429"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11409562/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139466142","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-10-01Epub Date: 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1177/10731911231220357
Julian Schulze, Manuel Heinrich, Jan-Philipp Freudenstein, Philipp Schäpers, Stefan Krumm
{"title":"Uncovering Hidden Framings in Dark Triad Self-Ratings: What Frames-of-Reference Do People Use When Responding to Generic Dark Triad Items?","authors":"Julian Schulze, Manuel Heinrich, Jan-Philipp Freudenstein, Philipp Schäpers, Stefan Krumm","doi":"10.1177/10731911231220357","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10731911231220357","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In typical Dark Triad (DT) questionnaires, generic items oftentimes refer to \"others\" or \"people\" in general. Hence, respondents have to mentally aggregate their behavior across several kinds of \"others\" (e.g., work colleagues, family members, and friends). It remains unknown if individuals consider different kinds of interaction partners equally or if their self-reports contain \"hidden\" interaction partner-specific tendencies. To shed light on this issue, we assessed generic and contextualized DT items (referring to family, friends, work, and strangers; <i>N</i> = 814 from the general population). The correlated trait-correlated (method - 1) model was used to investigate preregistered research questions. On average, generic DT items showed the strongest association with work-contextualized DT items and the weakest association with family-contextualized DT items. However, the associations varied considerably across DT items and traits. In sum, our results suggest that hidden framings exist in some DT items, which may impact their ability to predict relevant criteria due to contextual (a)symmetries. The generalizability of the findings to other DT instruments, items, and participant groups should be examined in future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"1472-1492"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11411850/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139569765","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1177/10731911241280769
Ezra Too, Esther Jebor Chongwo, Adam Mabrouk, Paul Mwangi, Millicent Makandi, Anita Kerubo, Rachel Odhiambo, Margaret Kabue, Joyce Marangu, Vibian Angwenyi, Amina Abubakar
{"title":"Mabrouk's Measure of Adolescent Optimism: Development and Validation of a New Scale of Adolescent Optimism.","authors":"Ezra Too, Esther Jebor Chongwo, Adam Mabrouk, Paul Mwangi, Millicent Makandi, Anita Kerubo, Rachel Odhiambo, Margaret Kabue, Joyce Marangu, Vibian Angwenyi, Amina Abubakar","doi":"10.1177/10731911241280769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911241280769","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Several measures of adolescent optimism exist. However, none of these measures have been developed in the African setting, and only a few of the available measures have been validated for use in this setting. We aimed to develop and validate a culturally appropriate measure for this context. We employed an exploratory sequential mixed methods design using a five-step approach to tool development, comprising literature reviews, construct clarification, item development, piloting, and scale evaluation. We constructed a six-item scale, the Mabrouk's Measure of Adolescent Optimism (MMAO). In a sample of 1616 adolescents from Kenya, the MMAO demonstrated adequate internal consistency (both Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's Omega > 0.80) and test-retest reliability (ICC = 0.46). Factor analysis supported a unidimensional scale with adequate criterion and divergent validity as well as measurement invariance across sex, age (younger vs. older adolescents), residence (rural vs. urban), schooling status (in-school vs. out-of-school adolescents), and language of administration (Swahili vs. English). We report on the development and validation of a new scale of adolescent optimism that can be used to assess optimism among adolescents in Kenya and similar contexts. Preliminary evidence shows support for this new measure's reliability and validity, although additional tests are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"10731911241280769"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142340176","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1177/10731911241283623
Katie Hoemann, Evan Warfel, Caitlin Mills, Laura Allen, Peter Kuppens, Jolie B Wormwood
{"title":"Using Freely Generated Labels Instead of Rating Scales to Assess Emotion in Everyday Life.","authors":"Katie Hoemann, Evan Warfel, Caitlin Mills, Laura Allen, Peter Kuppens, Jolie B Wormwood","doi":"10.1177/10731911241283623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911241283623","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To measure emotion in daily life, studies often prompt participants to repeatedly rate their feelings on a set of prespecified terms. This approach has yielded key findings in the psychological literature yet may not represent how people typically describe their experiences. We used an alternative approach, in which participants labeled their current emotion with at least one word of their choosing. In an initial study, estimates of label positivity recapitulated momentary valence ratings and were associated with self-reported mental health. The number of unique emotion words used over time was related to the balance and spread of emotions endorsed in an end-of-day rating task, but not to other measures of emotional functioning. A second study tested and replicated a subset of these findings. Considering the variety and richness of participant responses, a free-label approach appears to be a viable as well as compelling means of studying emotion in everyday life.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"10731911241283623"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142340178","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1177/10731911241283908
Hao Zheng, Yao Zheng
{"title":"Understanding the Within- and Between-Person Structure of Daily Psychopathology Among Adolescents and Young Adults.","authors":"Hao Zheng, Yao Zheng","doi":"10.1177/10731911241283908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911241283908","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous investigations on the underlying structure of psychopathology symptoms primarily focused at the between-person level and among adult samples. This study used two independent Canadian samples with month-long daily diary designs to investigate daily psychopathology structure at both within- and between-person level among adolescents (<i>n</i> = 99, 2,132 daily reports) and young adults (<i>n</i> = 313, 6,431 and 4,018 daily reports at each wave). Four mainstream types of psychopathology structure were compared based on a comprehensive set of standards. The results suggest that the general factor of psychopathology (<i>p</i> factor) derived from the higher-order and bifactor models performed similarly well at both within- and between-person levels, while the specific factors estimated in the bifactor models demonstrated low reliability and consistency over time. Psychopathology manifests as multidimensional at the within-person level but unidimensional at the between-person level. The current findings inform the development of future prevention and intervention programs by supporting the adoption of transdiagnostic treatment that addresses multiple psychopathology symptoms with a holistic approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"10731911241283908"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142340177","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}
AssessmentPub Date : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1177/10731911241276625
Maude Archambault, Chantal Cyr, Helen Minnis, Stine Lehmann, Sebastien Monette
{"title":"Validation of the Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder Assessment (RADA): A <i>DSM</i>-5 Semistructured Interview.","authors":"Maude Archambault, Chantal Cyr, Helen Minnis, Stine Lehmann, Sebastien Monette","doi":"10.1177/10731911241276625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911241276625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Very few empirically validated tools exist for assessing reactive attachment disorder (RAD) and disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED). The RAD and DSED assessment interview (RADA), a semistructured diagnostic interview, was updated in 2018 from the CAPA-RAD interview to reflect the diagnostic criteria changes in the <i>Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders</i> (5th ed.; <i>DSM-5</i>). The aim of this study was to validate the RADA on school-age children in Canada. Caregivers of 5 to 12-year-old children from the community (<i>n</i> = 98), in foster care (<i>n</i> = 147), and in residential care (<i>n</i> = 123) completed the RADA interview and a series of questionnaires. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the RADA interview supported a four-factor structure similar to the <i>DSM-5</i> symptom clusters. A short \"strictly <i>DSM-5</i>\" version of the RADA showed a two-factor structure-RAD and DSED-and an excellent fit to the data. Scales of both structures showed good-to-excellent internal consistency, interrater reliability, convergent validity, and known-group validity. Classifying the children yielded RAD and DSED rates of <1% and 18%, respectively, for children in foster care and 7% and 10%, respectively, for children in residential care. This study supports the validity of the RADA interview for school-age children and is the first to provide RAD and DSED rates for children in residential care.</p>","PeriodicalId":8577,"journal":{"name":"Assessment","volume":" ","pages":"10731911241276625"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142340179","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}