Showing papers in "International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology in 2017"

TL;DR: The study confirmed the bidimensional structure of the LOT-R and invariance across age and gender and can recommend using this instrument for measuring dispositional optimism and pessimism in epidemiological research and clinical practice.

TL;DR: This study provides age and gender specific norm values from a representative sample of the Norwegian population, which may be used in comparisons of optimism between individuals or between different samples of patients or sub-groups of people.

TL;DR: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy compared to usual care, produces a significant and moderate reduction in rumination, and it was maintained one month after the end of treatment.

TL;DR: Positive Psychotherapy for Cancer appears to promote significant long-term PTG and can reduce emotional distress and posttraumatic stress in cancer survivors and PTG facilitation induced by PPC is corroborated by significant others.

TL;DR: The findings underscore dating violence as a prevalent public health problem with a significant number of teens report dating victimization with girls more likely than boys to perceive negative impacts associated with the coercive behaviors experienced.

TL;DR: The pattern of mental health across the lifespan is clearly dependent on the nation, with Today's older Germans experienced more positive and less negative mental health whereas today's older Russians experienced less positive and morenegative mental health than the younger people.

TL;DR: Findings obtained indicated that the level of empathy, the social reputation, and the attitude to authority mediated the relationship between the environment perceived by boys at home and school, and their aggressive behaviour at school.

TL;DR: The aim of the present study was to develop and validate a short form of the STAI and obtain a selection of four items for state anxiety andFour items for trait anxiety that showed the best fit for Spanish samples.

TL;DR: Empirical evidence about static indicators and new relevant dynamic indicators in the victims’ police protection management is presented and practical implications for future police risk assessments are discussed.

TL;DR: The DVQ-R measures with 20 items five dimensions of abuse in affective interpersonal relationships of adolescents and youth provided evidence of a clear factorial structure that was invariant through sex groups.

TL;DR: The Conners indexes may be considered reliable and valid instruments for detecting ADHD symptoms in Spanish populations and have moderate-to-high rates of evidence of convergent validity with Child Behavior Checklist and Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders & Schizophrenia.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis was undertaken with a total of 32 primary studies from which 256 effect sizes were assessed, and a positive, significant, large and generalizable mean true effect size was found for the L, K, S and MP scales, and the L + K and L -F indexes.

TL;DR: The Spanish version of the Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women has adequate psychometric guarantees for use in clinical practice and research, although it would be necessary to further revise factors that showed a lower level of reliability.

TL;DR: The results of validation show that all the factors on the scale predict depressive symptomatology (BDI-II) adequately, and are highly correlated with the Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale and BDI-II scales.

TL;DR: The IPSO-CA24 responds to the need for an instrument enabling multidimensional evaluation of the burden on the family caregiver without specialized training.

TL;DR: Both specific disorders and general well-being are related to emotional intelligence, especially Attention and Emotional Clarity, which shows a high effect on psychological and somatic issues.

TL;DR: Findings underline the injurious potential of emotional abuse during childhood in adults in the community and more knowledge is needed about the mechanisms linking CM with further traumatic exposure and PTSD across the lifespan.

TL;DR: BI-AAQ has one-factor structure, excellent internal consistency, ability to detect differences between groups and measurement invariance across samples, and was negatively associated with self-compassion and positively associated with binge eating severity, drive for thinness and self-criticism.

TL;DR: The EDUTEA questionnaire aims to provide clinicians and researchers with a brief tool that can be used to screen autism spectrum disorders and social communication disorders in school settings and could be useful in ASD screening protocols in schools.

TL;DR: The instrument has adequate evidence of validity, allowing the evaluation of specific needs of people with intellectual disability, and advocate the design of transversal intervention policies in order to effectively meet the needs and requirements of this population.

TL;DR: A valid and gender invariant measure to analyze peer sexual cybervictimization in adolescence is proposed, which was invariant by gender and confirmed a second-order model comprising two first-order factors: Ambiguous sexual CyberVictimization and Personal sexual CybervictIMization.

TL;DR: The findings suggests that PTSD and depressed children differ somewhat in their cognitive profiles, and the differences in IQ found between those with PTSD and those without are not necessarily a confounding variable, but may rather be a consequence of their traumatic experience.

TL;DR: The developed 21-item elementary school QoL (ESQoL) instrument had high internal consistency and satisfactory reliability and validity and can facilitate the evaluation of factors associated with students’ emotional well-being.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the Spanish version of the Sidorkiewicz questionnaire may be a useful and valid instrument for assessing adherence to each individual drug taken by psychiatric outpatients undergoing polypsychopharmacy.

TL;DR: The preschool criteria may be advantageous for screening for PTSD risk in school- age children and further research is needed to optimize developmentally-appropriate PTSD criteria for school-age children.

TL;DR: Findings do not support the hypothesis that METS is more effective than CAU, but suggest that brief interventions at treatment initiation may improve patient outcomes.

TL;DR: There seems to be a dual route depending on how persons with phobia to cockroaches process phobic stimuli, which can have implications for the psychological treatment of specific phobias.

TL;DR: Previous research on delay discounting is extended by providing evidence on impulsivity levels among current e-cigarette users for the first time, which was significantly greater among current smokers compared to former smokers and controls.

TL;DR: These findings support the theoretical predictions and underscore the need to consider not only how severe the anxiety is but also the time course of anxiety in applied treatment settings.