Neuropsychologists are frequently presented with requests from parents, attorneys, nurse case managers, insurance representatives, school personnel, allied health professionals, family members or other interested parties who have some type of relationship with a patient or client examinee to directly observe or record the administration of psychological tests. Consequently, a number of practice...

Here we focus on factor analysis from a best practices point of view, by investigating the factor structure of neuropsychological tests and using the results obtained to illustrate on choosing a reasonable solution. The sample (n=1051 individuals) was randomly divided into two groups: one for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and principal component analysis (PCA), to investigate the number of ...

Assessment of change in behavioral functioning in children as a function of neurotoxicity is not a trivial undertaking. Psychological tests, widely (though erroneously) considered to be the "gold standard" for measurement of behavior in humans, are not adequate for the task; they tap the structure of cognition, not the behavioral repertoire, and cannot (alone) address developmental change. Comp...

Logically, though not historically, projective techniques must be regarded as a part of the general field of psychological measurement. Projective testing and research may therefore legitimately be studied within the theoretical and methodologicall framework of psychological measurement, always keeping in mind, of course, the problems that are peculiar to projective techniques. Largely as a.. r...

BACKGROUND The 'Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life-Direct Weighting' (SEIQoL-DW) is an instrument developed to measure individual quality of life. Although this instrument has been used in numerous studies, data on validity and reliability are sparse. This study aimed to examine aspects of validity, reliability and responsiveness of the SEIQoL-DW on data obtained in adult...

BACKGROUND The problem of missing values at the item level is common in studies using educational and psychological tests. The aim of the present work is to explore how the estimation of reliability is affected by missing values. METHOD Using real data, we simulated missing values in accordance with a "missing at random mechanism". Four factors were manipulated with the aim of check...

Aim. The aim of this work is to compare personality traits changes and main symptoms changes in patients younger and older than 30 years during intensive, complex, integrative psychotherapy. Material and methods. Three self-descriptive measures: the 16 PF of R.B.Cattell, the Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON-2006 and the Symptom Check-list “O” were used in the study. A number of 100 patien...

Psychological characteristics of 56 Colombian male street children, aged 7 to 16, were examined from participant observations and results of three psychological tests given the children. The Kohs Block Design measured their intelligence; and the Human Figure Drawing and the Bender Gestalt measured emotional and neurological functioning. The test data showed the sample to be relatively healthy, ...

The practical worker in clinic or guidance bureau has longrecognized the existence of a factor in human adjustment which he has called interest. There has been a considerable period of scientific description of this factor. Recently, within the last ten years in fact, interests have been submitted to measurement. Such measurement of interests gives every promise of contributing to the happy and...

Psychologists in health care settings today find it increasingly difficult to obtain authorization and appropriate reimbursement for psychological assessments from 3rd party payers. Authorization and reimbursement denials often are based on allegations that empirical support for the utility and validity of psychological tests is nonexistent or limited. This article reviews a sample of the consi...