Convergent validity

There are 22 non-overlapping scales that contain four validity scales, eleven clinical scales, five treatment scales, and two interpersonal scales (ten scales are further divided into thirty-one abstractly distinct subscales). Most of the scales consist of 8, 12, or 24 items with a standard reading on the fourth grade level, which makes it easy for most adults to understand and comprehend. The validity scale measures Inconsistency, Infrequency, Negative Impression, and Positive…

Scale to evaluate the severity of the tic. Utilization effectiveness is in both a clinical and research setting. This scale offers the clinician internal stability and consistency. Moreover, it offers the clinician discriminant validity as well as convergent validity when used with other scales. According to Plessen (2013), the only notable drawback of the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale is the timeline. When offered by a clinician the administered interview as well as the time it takes to…

Methodological review Addocks and Collier’s article “Measurement Validity: A Shared Standard for Qualitative and Quantitative Research attempts to solve a number of theoretical and methodological problems concerning variable viability. In doing so they seek to address four distinct problems within the realms of political science research. They are: how we understand the different types of validity, the debate between content validity and conceptual disputes, provided an alternate solution to…

Over the past decade there has been an increasing consensus regarding the centrality of the patients perception in monitoring individual medical outcomes. Researchers are discovering that for most patients, medical care is obtained to preserve a more effective quality of life and well-being. Patients want to function at the highest level possible. Although the patient is usually the best resource for weather goals have been met, a patients lived experiences seem to be lacking in some surveys.…

The PICO question is, “In hospitalized, and sexually abused children, is animal-assisted therapy effective in reducing stress symptoms as compared to no animal therapy?” The population is children in stressful situations, and in this case, is children who are hospitalized, or have been sexually abused. The intervention is animal assisted therapy. The control is no animal-assisted therapy, and the outcome is stress symptoms. The use of animal-assisted therapy on stress symptoms was evaluated in…

question By using grow models and latent class models, the authors propose and examine the conceptualization of two-dimensional agency, namely temporality and expectation. Based on the data of the Youth Development Study, the research provides convergent evidence to support the multidimensional conceptualization of agency, which can efficiently predict various life course outcomes. (2) The main argument and the theoretical support Though the study of expectation has a long tradition in…

Has technology compromised our sexual and social life? As technology has become an integral part of our lives, people start questioning whether or not we are too addicted to it that we could give up our social life. A survey conducted by Sachs media group in 2013 shows that majority of respondents would not give up their smartphone for a week, given the choice among sex, smartphone, alcohol and caffeine (Sachs media group, 2013). The statistics presented through the infographic “What Won’t We…

seen to measure two distinct and individual dimensions of personality only; Extraversion and Neuroticism. The inventory consists of 18 items that require dichotomous scores ranging from zero to nine. The inventory is said to have good construct validity after having been tested primarily in Swedish twin studies (Levenson, Aldwin, Bossé, & Spiro, 1988; Mroczek, Spiro, Aldwin, Ozer, & Bossé, 1993 as cites in Mroczek and Spiro, 2003). Results of the study had revealed that men differed in their…

The Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ) Self-regulation is the ability to develop, implement, and flexibly maintain planned behavior in order to achieve one's goals. Building on the foundational work of Frederick Kanfer (Kanfer, 1970a, 1970b), Miller and Brown formulated a seven-step model of self-regulation (Brown, 1998) (Miller & Brown, 1991). In this model, behavioral self-regulation may falter because of failure or deficits at any of these seven steps: 1. Receiving relevant information 2.…

nursing home, such as depression and dementia, could help give the patient the care they need. A brief interview for mental status (BIMS) is the mandated cognitive tool. It provides an efficient measurement that provides strong reliability and convergent validity, can be rapidly administered, and is suited for paraprofessional use (Mansbach, Mace, & Clark, 2014). The short comings associated with the BIMS tools are it is not designed to be sensitive towards the full cognitive continuum and does…