The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) is an 80-item self-report measure designed to assess crime-supporting cognitive patterns. Data from men (N = 450) and women (N = 227) offenders indicate that the PICTS thinking, validity, and content scales possess moderate to moderately high internal consistency and test-retest stability. Meta-analyses of studies in which the PICT...

OBJECTIVE To develop an instrument to assess discrimination effects on health outcomes and behaviors, capable of distinguishing harmful differential treatment effects from their interpretation as discriminatory events. METHODS Successive versions of an instrument were developed based on a systematic review of instruments assessing racial discrimination, focus groups and review by a panel comp...

in this study, three varieties of rice including tarom, anbarbo and hashemi were selected and their heavy metals content were analyzed. subcritical water was used to provide rice bran extract at temperatures 100 and 120 ° c. in order to provide grape juice treatments, we used 5, 10, 15 and 20 % of extract in the formulation of red grape drink. samples which had packed and pasteurized, kept in t...

Objectives: To culturally adapt the Cardiac Patients’ Learning Needs Inventory for use in Brazil and to test its reliability (internal consistency and stability) in Brazilian patients with coronary artery disease. Methods: The study included 65 patients with acute myocardial infarction, hospitalized in a public hospital in the state of São Paulo. For data collection, we used an instrument for s...

BACKGROUND With the availability of more healthcare courses and an increased intake of nursing students, education institutions are facing challenges to attract school leavers to enter nursing courses. The comparison of career choice influences and perception of nursing among healthcare students can provide information for recruitment strategies. An instrument to compare the influences of healt...

BACKGROUND Although there is an increasing need to investigate the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children and adolescents with chronic conditions in Japan, there is currently no standardized measure in which young children can directly answer questions about their HRQOL. The DISABKIDS Smiley measure uses face emoticons to measure HRQOL and distress caused by illness and related trea...

OBJECTIVE The Empathy Quotient (EQ) is a self-reported test developed by Baron-Cohen et al. (2004) to measure the cognitive and affective aspects of empathy. The purpose of this study was to develop a Korean version of EQ and to establish its psychometric properties based on a representative Korean sample. METHODS The Korean version of EQ and its correspondence with another popular measure of...

BACKGROUND The Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ) and the BREQ-2 are the most commonly used measures of behavioural regulation in exercise psychology. The purpose of the study was to assess the validity and reliability of the Iranian version of the BREQ-2 on a sample of university students. METHODS The BREQ-2 was translated into Persian by qualified experts and the psychom...