scholarly journals Psychological Assessment of Adolescent Offenders: Validity of the Brazilian Jesness Inventory–Revised

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Rafaelle Carolynne Santos Costa ◽  
André Vilela Komatsu ◽  
Marina Rezende Bazon
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Psychosocial Intervention ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Diagnostic Process ◽  
Adolescent Offenders ◽  
Jesness Inventory ◽  
Adequate Internal Consistency

AbstractThis work presents validation of the Jesness Inventory, particularly its revised version, to the Brazilian reality. It was developed by Carl Jesness, based on his clinical experience and research programs for juvenile offenders, to assess juvenile offenders, particularly to understand the functioning of their personality, offering clues to customize psychosocial intervention, and verification of results from this, in terms of changes in adolescents’ beliefs/values and attitudes. Regarding the psychometric properties, the revised version showed an adequate internal consistency and temporal stability. For the evidence of validity, the results of the concurrent criterion and simultaneous validity were in agreement with those found in other studies, emphasizing the specific capacities of this instrument to distinguish adolescent offenders from non-offenders and properly classify them, denoting its quality in helping the diagnostic process. Research to verify predictive and construct validity is being carried out.

scholarly journals Examining the psychometric properties of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 in Brazilian adolescents

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Alcaraz Ibáñez ◽  
João Guilherme Cren Chiminazzo ◽  
Álvaro Sicilia ◽  
Paula Teixeira Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Physique Anxiety ◽  
Body Appreciation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Adequate Internal Consistency ◽  
Insight Into

            This study examined the psychometric properties of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) in Brazilian adolescents. The sample was comprised of 438 boys (Mage = 15.50, SDage = 1.20) and 402 girls (M = 15.51, SDage = 1.18). Confirmatory factor analyses supported a one-dimensional and partially invariant across-gender and weight status factor structure. The instrument showed adequate internal consistency and temporal stability over a two-week period. Body appreciation was negatively correlated with social physique anxiety and body mass index in both boys and girls. After controlling for social physique anxiety, body appreciation was positively and significantly correlated with life satisfaction in both genders. Significantly higher levels of body appreciation scores were found in men compared to women (d = .48) as well as in underweight and normoweight adolescents compared to the overweight and obese adolescents (d = .50). These findings suggest that the BAS-2 is a valid and reliable instrument to assess body appreciation in Brazilian adolescents. The BAS-2 could be useful for attaining a deeper insight into positive body image research as well as for improving clinical practice in the Brazilian context.

scholarly journals Psychological assessment in juvenile offenders: reliability and validity of Inventário de Jesness – revisado brasileiro

Psico ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 32336
Author(s):  
Rafaelle Carolyne Santos Costa ◽  
André Vilela Komatsu ◽  
Alana Batistuta Manzi De Oliveira ◽  
Marina Rezende Bazon
Keyword(s):  
Relative Risk ◽  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Adolescent Offenders ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
Student’S T Test

The Inventário de Jesness – revisado brasileiro (IJ-R-Br) assess psychological aspects of adolescent offenders. The objective of this study was to obtain evidence of reliability and criterion validity of two IJ-R-Br’s subscales. The responses of 928 male adolescents to the IJ-R-Br and the Questionário de Comportamento Juvenis (QCJ) were analyzed. Reliability was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha and Spearman- Brown coefficient. The criterion validity, through the Student’s t-test, of chi-squared and relative risk analysis, was used to verify the association between high scores on measures and high indicators of infractional engagement (measured by QCJ). The accuracy scores were unsatisfactory only for three of 12 Inventory scales. Regarding the criterion validity, there are more adolescents with high indicators of infractional engagement in the group with high scores. It is opportune to conduct research with a population of teenage offenders.

Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents: Psychometric Properties Among Portuguese Adolescents

2018 ◽  
pp. 003022281881934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Sofia Ventosa Brás ◽  
Cláudia Isabel Guerreiro Carmo ◽  
Saul Neves de Jesus
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Reasons For Living ◽  
Reasons For Living Inventory ◽  
Portuguese Adolescents

Reasons for living are protective factors against suicidal behavior in adolescents. One of the most useful measures to assess them is the Reasons for Living Inventory for Adolescents (RFL-A) developed by Osman et al. The goal of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of its Portuguese version of the RFL-A. To this end, we recruited 512 high school adolescents (mean age = 16.7 years), who completed the RFL-A, a Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, and a hopelessness scale. Exploratory factor analysis replicated the original five-factor model and confirmatory factor analysis obtained satisfactory adjustment values. The RFL-A shows good reliability (internal consistency and temporal stability) as well as good convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validities. These results indicate that the RFL-A is a valid and reliable measure to study protective factors against suicidal behaviors in Portuguese adolescents.

scholarly journals Design and psychometric properties of BAtSS: A new tool to assess human attitudes towards bats.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Pérez ◽  
Boris Álvarez ◽  
Alex Boso ◽  
Fulgencio Lisón
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Standard Scale ◽  
Conservation Actions ◽  
Pilot Sample ◽  
Adequate Internal Consistency

Abstract Despite the benefits that bats offer the ecosystem, these animals are feared due to mythological beliefs and their association with dirt and disease. The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated this situation, exacerbating the already habitual attacks on these creatures. Today there is an urgent need to address the human-bat conflict in order to develop conservation policies. Understanding peoples' attitudes towards bats is a key part of this process. The object of this study was to design the Bats Attitudes Standard Scale (BAtSS) and analyse its psychometric properties. We developed an initial version of the scale in which we established the content validity; we analysed the items and structure in a pilot sample. In the next phase, we analysed psychometric properties in a sample of 1639 Chilean people. The final BAtSS consists of 34 Likert-type items configured in an oblique-hierarchical structure of 4 factors (Scientistic, Positivistic, Negativistic and Myths) and 3 facets (Negativistic-Emotional, Negativistic-Behavioural and Negativistic-Cognitive). It presents adequate internal consistency and the analysis of concurrent validity confirms the capacity of the scale to discriminate between groups. Women and participants with a lower level of education are more Negativistic and less Positivistic. People with a higher level of education have a less mythological view of bats. We also analysed the items which would be more/less difficult to change under the assumptions of Item Response Theory (IRT). Finally, BAtSS is a robust tool to assess the human attitudes and could help to understand and solve human-wildlife conflicts and therefore, improving the conservation actions

scholarly journals Preprint: Psychometric properties of startle and corrugator response in NPU, Affective Picture Viewing, and Resting State tasks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse T Kaye ◽  
Daniel E. Bradford ◽  
John Joseph Curtin
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Resting State ◽  
Startle Response ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Frequency Domains ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Picture Viewing ◽  
Startle Potentiation

The current study provides a comprehensive evaluation of critical psychometric properties of commonly used psychophysiology laboratory tasks/measures within the NIMH RDoC. Participants (N = 128) completed the No Shock, Predictable Shock, Unpredictable Shock (NPU) task, Affective Picture Viewing task, and Resting State task at two study visits separated by one week. We examined potentiation/modulation scores in NPU (predictable or unpredictable shock vs. no shock) and Affective Picture Viewing tasks (pleasant or unpleasant vs. neutral pictures) for startle and corrugator responses with two commonly used quantification methods. We quantified startle potentiation/modulation scores with raw and standardized responses. We quantified corrugator potentiation/modulation in the time and frequency domains. We quantified general startle reactivity in the Resting State Task as the mean raw startle response during the task. For these three tasks, two measures, and two quantification methods we evaluated effect size robustness and stability, internal consistency (i.e., split-half reliability), and one-week temporal stability. The psychometric properties of startle potentiation in the NPU task were good but concerns were noted for corrugator potentiation in this task. Some concerns also were noted for the psychometric properties of both startle and corrugator modulation in the Affective Picture Viewing task, in particular for pleasant picture modulation. Psychometric properties of general startle reactivity in the Resting State task were good. Some salient differences in the psychometric properties of the NPU and Affective Picture Viewing tasks were observed within and across quantification methods.

scholarly journals Validation of the Core Beliefs Inventory (CBI) in Brazilian Portuguese

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-414
Author(s):  
Tayse Conter de Moura ◽  
Julia Candia Donat ◽  
Thiago Loreto Garcia da Silva ◽  
Adriane Xavier Arteche ◽  
Carolina Saraiva de Macedo Lisboa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Portuguese Version ◽  
The Core ◽  
Adequate Internal Consistency

Abstract Introduction Experiencing trauma may entail psychopathological consequences, but also changes considered to be positive (i.e., posttraumatic growth). For positive change to occur, an impact on the beliefs of individuals is required, which may be measured through the Core Beliefs Inventory (CBI). The objective of this study was to validate the Brazilian Portuguese version of the CBI. Methods A total of 248 university students (65.7% female) answered the following assessment instruments: sociodemographic data sheet, Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), Posttraumatic Symptoms Checklist – Clinician Version (PCL-5) and the CBI. Psychometric properties of the CBI were assessed by conducting an exploratory factor analysis through a principal component analysis with varimax rotation. Internal consistency (Cronbach’s α) and convergent validity (Pearson correlation between instruments) were also investigated. Results The total scale showed adequate internal consistency (α = 0.83). A single factor solution explained 42.63% of the variance of the CBI. Significant correlations were found between CBI and PTGI, and between CBI and PCL-5. Conclusion The psychometric properties indicated adequate internal consistency and construct validity of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the CBI.

scholarly journals Assessment of Psychological Safety of a Situation and Strategy for Coping Behavior in Juvenile Offenders

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
E.B. Laktionova ◽  
Yu.S. Pezhemskaya
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Behavior ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Adolescent Offenders ◽  
Ways Of Coping ◽  
Prognostic Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
Difficult Situations

The article presents the results of the research of subjective prognostic evaluation of the level of psychological safety of a situation and the strategies of coping behavior of adolescent offenders in comparison to adolescents with lawful behavior. Psychological safety of a situation is viewed as an environment resource ensuring the effectiveness of coping strategies used by adolescents in difficult situations. The research sample was comprised of 100 adolescents aged 14-15. It has been revealed that the situations with the lowest level of psychological safety are those associated with breach of confidentiality, betrayal, quarreling with friends and dependence on decisions of others. In their assessment of situations, juvenile offenders show higher levels of psychological safety than adolescents with lawful behavior. The latter have more varied ways of coping behavior than adolescent offenders do. While possessing the same levels of confidence in themselves, the world and other people, the adolescents who commit offences and those with lawful behavior differ both in their estimations of the psychological safety levels of situations and in their strategies for coping with troubles.

The Criminal Sentiments Scale-Modified and Pride in Delinquency Scale

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID J. SIMOURD
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Two Measures

The present study explored the utility of two measures of criminal attitudes—the Criminal Sentiments Scale-Modified (CSS-M) and the Pride in Delinquency scale (PID)—among a sample of 114 Canadian federally incarcerated offenders. The study examined the psychometric properties and construct validity of the measures, administered as part of a prerelease psychological assessment. The results indicated that both are reliable and valid measures of criminal attitudes. Implications of the findings with respect to theory and practice are considered.

scholarly journals Validation and Adaptation of the Academic-Resilience Scale in the Spanish Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 3779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Trigueros ◽  
Ana M. Magaz-González ◽  
Marta García-Tascón ◽  
Antonio Alias ◽  
José M. Aguilar-Parra
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
University Students ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Academic Resilience ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Resilience Scale

The aim of this study was to validate and adapt the academic-resilience scale in the Spanish context. The study involved 2967 university students aged 18–33 (Mean, M = 23.65; Standard Deviation, SD = 2.57) from several universities in Andalusia (Spain). Exploratory and confirmatory factorial analyses revealed adequate adjustment rates for the new version of the scale showing the factorial structure invariant with respect to that generated. Three factors that integrate the scale obtained high correlation, internal consistency, and temporal stability. The Spanish version of the academic-resilience scale was shown to have adequate psychometric properties to measure academic resilience in the Spanish university context.

Does Relationship Satisfaction Always Mean Satisfaction? Development of the Couple Relationship Satisfaction Scale

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktorija Cepukiene
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Couple Relationship ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Instrument Measuring ◽  
Adequate Internal Consistency

AbstractThis article presents the development of an instrument measuring relationship satisfaction, based on the theory that separates ‘relationship quality’ from ‘satisfaction’ concerning the semantic meaning of the concepts, and to evaluate psychometric properties of the new measure. Two studies were conducted in order to investigate the psychometric properties of the new scale, with 372 and 1,185 participants taking part in Study 1 and Study 2 respectively. Results revealed that the new scale has two-factor structure, adequate internal consistency reliability, and convergent, discriminant and known-groups validity.

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