Concurrent validity

‘‘sometimes’’, 3 means ‘‘often’’, and 4 means ‘‘very often’’ (Kessler, Green, Adler, Barkley, Chatterji, Faraone, & Van Brunt, 2010). Internal consistency estimates reported Cronbach´s alpha values of .88, and has been proven to have high concurrent validity (Adler, Spencer, Faraone, Kessler, Howes, Biederman, & Secnik, 2006). The internal consistency estimates and reported Cronbach´s alpha values used for this study was…

scale pertaining to anxiety levels. A clinician or nurse asks the client to rate themselves from 0 (no anxiety) to 7 (equal to acute panic state as seen in severe delirium or acute schizophrenic reactions). Metcalfe et al. (1995) looked at concurrent validity by comparing obtained scores using CIWA-Ar, which produced a correlation coefficient of 0.85. Williams et al. (2001, p. 107) stated CIWA-Ar “originally derived from the well-established SSA (Single State Agency), so that assessment could be…

Career counselling is one of the application and practice of vocational psychology founded by Frank Parsons (1854-1908). There was no official theory by Parsons on his work and methods like the assessments he utilized. Nevertheless, many career theorists who came up with career development theories and framework credited Parsons for his work as a guiding framework (Baltreniene, 2004) and would consider Parsons’s greatest contribution to career counseling was his advocacy on one’s understanding…

Introduction Definitions of intelligence vary among scholars, theorists, and laypersons, due to its multidimensionality. However, intelligence typically involves an individual’s ability to learn from experience and adapt to the environment in which they live. I believe that the construct of intelligence should encompass an individual’s ability to effectively communicate in both written and verbal form, to think logically, and to express creativity. Two intelligence tests in which I recently…

to how life itself became, Darwin set the foundation for scientist then and now to investigate natural phenomena all around us. Firstly, let’s discuss how humans came about. Comforts explanation for the lack of transitional fossils to negate the validity of evolution is false. Comfort…

to reason that the available archaeological evidence testifies to a sixth century dating of the book of Daniel. First, Yamauchi explores the considerations given to Nebuchadnezzar. Here, the author brings into question the idea of the historical validity of a Babylonian campaign against Jerusalem. Yamauchi points to Wiseman’s observation that “the Chaldean Chronicles…indicate that Nebuchadnezzar claims to have conquered ‘all Hatti land,’ that is, Palestine, in 605, proving that an actual…

Evidence Based Practice Care Plan Nursing 257 Courtney Simmons UWEC College Nursing and Health Sciences According to Jones, Law, Maddison, Markland, & Thom (2013) many people understand the benefits of being physically active. For patients with Rheumatoid arthritis, there are numerous physiological and psychological advantages associated with an active lifestyle. Research shows that people with Rheumatoid Arthritis are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, cachexia,…

Is the use of police discretion effective? The aim of this essay is to critically discuss the use of discretion within routine police work, arguing that it is a useful but problematic feature. To successfully achieve this, a brief overview of the topic of police discretion and details of relevant guidelines will be provided such as PACE 1984 (Home office, 1984). The next few paragraphs will provide reasons, facts and case studies for the usefulness of police discretion and why it is…

comparison groups in calculating offenders’ cognitive processes, physical attributes, offense behaviors, or social habits and history. While they were marginally better at predicting overall offender characteristics, this is a sizable hole in the validity of profilers’…

In an interview with PBS’s Frontline in 1997, the activist Angela Davis discusses at length the issues affecting African-Americans in the United States and the efficacy of black protest as a means of challenging oppressive circumstances. Central to her thesis is the notion that “the black community” is far from as homogenous as the term implies, and that it is therefore inappropriate to universalise the African-American experience. To illustrate this, Davis references the growing divide between…