
Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment
Principles and Applications
Description
Key Features
- Discusses psychometric issues and empirical studies that speak to same
- Explores the family context in relation to children’s behavioral outcomes
- Features major personality measures as well as their cross cultural variations
- Identifies the importance of coping and resilience in assessing personality and psychopathology
- Examines precursors of aggression and violence for prediction and prevention
Readership
Researchers in psychological assessment, educational psychology, school psychology, personality and cognition
Table of Contents
PART I: PSYCHOMETRIC FOUNDATIONS OF TEST CONSTRUCTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
1. Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test Construction
2. Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Item Response Perspectives on Reliability
3. Validity
4. Advances in Latent Variable Measurement ModelingPART II: METACOGNITIVE, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL COGNITIVE, MEMORY AND BEHAVIORAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
5. Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior
6. Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCDPART III: TEMPERAMENT, PERSONALITY AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
7. The Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology
8. The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes
9. Perspectives and Advances in Personality
10. Measures of PersonalityPART IV: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DOMAINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRIC TAXONOMIES AND ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL DISORDERS
11. Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology
12. Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding MeasuresPART V: AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE: EFFORTS TO PREDICT THEIR OUTCOMES
13. Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology
14. General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures
15. The Aggressive Implications of Suicide
Product details
- No. of pages: 500
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: June 19, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128022191
- eBook ISBN: 9780128024904
About the Authors
Carina Coulacoglou
Affiliations and Expertise
Donald Saklofske
Affiliations and Expertise
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