Sentences with phrase «psychological measures assessing»

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[1] At the end of the study after 12 months of supplementation, participants undertook clinical tests to assess their nervous system function including measures of muscle strength, coordination, mobility, tests of cognitive function including memory, and of psychological health.

Additionally, the survey assessed family resources, including income and education, and other measures that impact children's psychological functioning and behavior, such as parental distress, family conflict, non-corporal discipline, parental monitoring, and deviant peer affiliation.

The Myers - Briggs Type Indicator assessment — a questionnaire developed more than 70 years ago to measure psychological preferences for how we perceive the world and make decisions — is a well - known tool for assessing job candidates, management techniques and decision - making processes.

Satiety and physiological hunger was assessed by measuring hormonal markers and perceived appetite sensations combined with psychological reward - driven eating motivation, making use of fMRI to determine brain activation in certain areas associated with food motivation and reward.

«We are measuring and assessing things like perceived stress, mood, psychological resilience and the occurrence of anxiety - producing thoughts,» he says.

Participants were recruited from two hospital sites in Melbourne (Australia), and were administered the standard QOLIBRI (Quality of Life after Brain Injury) questionnaire plus two different measures assessing depression (the recent World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the much older Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)-RRB-, a measure of demoralization (Demoralization Scale (DS)-RRB- and psychological distress (K10).

Despite controversies concerning the extent to which daily hassles are confounded with mental health outcomes, measuring daily hassles may be more useful than assessing major life events (e.g., parents divorce) in predicting psychological and somatic adaptational outcomes (Holm & Holroyd, 1992).

Intimate partner violence was assessed for the 12 months before the 5 -, 6 -, and 9 - year assessments by using the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale.37 This instrument measures the domains of minor psychological aggression, severe psychological aggression, minor physical assault, and severe physical assault.

Primary outcome Psychological well - being measured using Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scores (HADS), assessed at 5 ± 1 days postunit discharge and 28 days / hospital discharge.

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36

The Dunedin sample has been assessed with a diverse battery of psychological, medical, and sociological measures with high rates of participation at age3 (n = 1037), 5 (n = 991), 7 (n = 954), 9 (n = 955), 11 (n = 925), 13 (n = 850), 15 (n = 976), 18 (n = 993), 21 (n = 992), and, most recently, 26 years (n = 980; 96 % of the living cohort members).

To obtain the required data, three questionnaires were utilized: Allport and Ross's (1967) Intrinsic - Extrinsic Religious Orientation Scale (IEROS) to measure extrinsic and intrinsic religious orientations, Short Measurement of Psychological Well - Being by Clarke, Marshall, Ryff, and Wheaton (2001) to measure psychological well - being, and finally, The Rosenberg Self - Esteem Scale by Rosenberg (1965) to assess sPsychological Well - Being by Clarke, Marshall, Ryff, and Wheaton (2001) to measure psychological well - being, and finally, The Rosenberg Self - Esteem Scale by Rosenberg (1965) to assess spsychological well - being, and finally, The Rosenberg Self - Esteem Scale by Rosenberg (1965) to assess self - esteem.

Abstract: The Demand - Control Questionnaire (DCQ), a 20 - item scale that measures psychological work demands, job control and workplace social support, has frequently been used to assess occupational stress.

Objective: Burnout and work engagement are generally defined as psychological states but the methods used to measure these constructs are more in line with methods used to assess psychological traits.

Abstract: Objective: Burnout and work engagement are generally defined as psychological states but the methods used to measure these constructs are more in line with methods used to assess psychological traits.

This search was guided by the content of questionnaires and observation scales that are widely used to assess psychological control (i.e., Child Report of Parental Behavior Inventory; [189], Parental Psychological Control measure; [28], Psychological Control Scalpsychological control (i.e., Child Report of Parental Behavior Inventory; [189], Parental Psychological Control measure; [28], Psychological Control ScalPsychological Control measure; [28], Psychological Control ScalPsychological Control Scale; [10]-RRB-.

Race / Ethnicity Caucasian Hispanic African American Asian American Native American Other races not listed N / A Socioeconomic status < $ 10,000 $ 10,000 - $ 20,000 $ 20,000 - $ 30,000 $ 30,000 - $ 40,000 $ 40,000 - $ 50,000 $ 50,000 - $ 60,000 $ 60,000 - $ 70,000 > $ 70,000 Education level High school diploma Vocational training Some college Bachelor's degree Graduate / professional training Doctoral degree Marital status Measures The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study Questionnaire (ACEs Questionnaire; Felitti et al., 1998) assessed mothers» exposure to seven dimensions of ACEs, including psychological, physical, and sexual abuse and exposure to parental substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, and criminal behavior.

A meta - analysis of interventions with carers of patients with cancer concluded that small - to - medium effect sizes were appropriate for measuring psychological outcomes.15 Further research using adequately powered RCTs is needed to establish: when support should be provided, how to assess carer needs, and how to provide effective psychosocial support to carers.15 — 18

«Assessing self - esteem,» in Positive Psychological Assessment: A Handbook of Models and Measures, eds S. J. Lopez and C. R. Snyder (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association), 219 — 233.

Table 2 contains the GLM and logistic regressions assessing the contribution of the independent variables, CU levels, and the presence / absence of ODD on the children's psychological measures for the total sample (n = 622), adjusted by the covariates family SES, children's ethnicity and sex, other comorbid disorder different from ODD and the number of DSM - IV CD symptoms.

Children's psychological adjustment was assessed using the Brief Infant - Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA)(Briggs - Gowan and Carter, 2002; Briggs - Gowan et al., 2004), a questionnaire measure of social - emotional problems and competencies in 1 — 3 - year - olds adapted from the Infant - Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (Briggs - Gowan and Carter, 1998; Carter et al., 2001).

General Linear Models (GLM, for psychological quantitative measures) and logistic regressions (for binary measures) assessed the specific contribution of CU levels and the presence of ODD diagnosis on the psychological measures.

Most parenting research has assessed the efficacy of social support by evaluating relationships between retrospective measures of social support processes and general measures of psychological distress (i.e., depressive symptoms, stress).

In the MCS, child behaviour was assessed by a pre-existing standard psychological measure, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)[23], which was completed by the «main carer» (i.e. the mother, in our study populations) at ages 3, 5 and 7 years.