While researchers usually are concerned about psychometric properties of psychological tests estimated using large samples, most clinical decision-makers must evaluate the accuracy of test results for individuals. This is particularly true as regards tests that have cutting scores to determine, for example, whether to assign a particular diagnosis or accept an applicant into a training program....

Background: Adolescents with pectus excavatum (PE) are often affected by their body shape. The aim of our approach was to quantify the patients’ individual psychological distress and to create a psychological indication for treatment. Methods: 10 adolescents (8 male, median age 16 years, interquartile range 15 17 yrs.) with PE were examined at our psychological department. Using standardized ps...

It has been found (O'Connor, 1951) that certain psychological tests provide a means of predicting the amount of emotional instability in high-grade defectives, when the latter quality is rated by psychiatrists acquainted with the patients. The psychological tests were of primary suggestibility, general locomotor coordination, and persistence. The multiple correlation of the results of these tes...

objective(s): incidence of neurocognitive and psychological disorders may be related to serum homocystein (hcy), cobalamin (vitamin b12 ) and folate levels in old people. the aim of this study was to assess the relation between hcy, cobalamin, folate and neurocognitive and/or psychological disorders in the elderly.   materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 280 subjects with ≥ 65 y...

on pedagogic retardation owing to the fact that the psychological retardation of large numbers of children was impossible to ascertain. The Binet test furnishes us with a method for measuring the psychological retardation of the child. It is, however, almost impossible to test every child in the school system of a great city by means of these tests. This is so for two reasons: first, the length...

This technical paper reviews the current literature on psychological issues relevant to astronaut selection for long-duration space flights. Interpersonal problems have been and remain a recurring problem for both short and long-duration space flights. Even after completion of the space mission, intense psychological aftereffects are reported. The specific behavioral problems experienced during...