OBJECTIVE Fear of eye gaze and avoidance of eye contact are core features of social anxiety disorders (SAD). To measure self-reported fear and avoidance of eye gaze, the Gaze Anxiety Rating Scale (GARS) has been developed and validated in recent years in its English version. The main objectives of the present study were to psychometrically evaluate the German translation of the GARS concerning ...

The effect of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on working memory and field independence was investigated in a twelve-week longitudinal time-series study in which the uMatch Me" computerized memory game and the Rod and Frame Test were administered daily to a matched pair of 11-year-old boys and a matched pair of 14-year-old girls. One of the boys and one of the girls began the TM tec...

BACKGROUND The perspective of users should be taken into account in the evaluation of Web-based health interventions. Assessing the users' satisfaction with the intervention they receive could enhance the evidence for the intervention effects. Thus, there is a need for valid and reliable measures to assess satisfaction with Web-based health interventions. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study...

In [Bat92] Batyrev studied the cone of pseudo-effective divisors on Q-factorial terminal threefolds and its dual cone, the cone of nef curves. Given a uniruled Q-factorial terminal threefold X , and an ample divisor H on X , he showed that the effective threshold of H (see Definition 1.5 below) is a rational number. Using similar arguments, Fujita generalized this result to log terminal pairs (...

UNLABELLED AIM : The present study aimed to explore the factorial structure, validity and stability of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in chronically ill and healthy Polish adolescents. METHODS 146 chronically ill (girls: 57.6%) and 309 healthy (girls: 45.9%) adolescents aged between 12 and 16 years (M = 14.03; SD = 1.3) filled in an adapted version of HADS (HADS-Teen) in hos...

BACKGROUND The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is the mainstream measure for burnout. However, its psychometric properties have been questioned, and alternative measurement models of the inventory have been suggested. AIMS Different models for the number of items and factors of the MBI-HSS, the version of the Inventory for the Human Service sector, were tested in order to identify the most ap...

The factorial invariance of responses by preadolescent males and females to a multidimensional self-concept instrument was examined for responses to the Self Description Questionnaire (SDQ). Sets of responses by 500 males and by 500 females were each randomly divided in half to form four groups (M1, M2, Fl, and F2). The factorial invariance of an a priori structure demonstrated the replicabilit...

This study examines the factorial structure of a new instrument to measure engagement, the hypothesized ‘opposite’ of burnout in a sample of university students (N = 314) and employees (N = 619). In addition, the factorial structure of the Maslach-Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) is assessed and the relationship between engagement and burnout is examined. Simultaneous confirmatory fact...

; Factorial () ; Factorial calculates the factorial of an input ; integer given in the AX register and returns the ; result in the AX register. Assumes input is ; nonnegative. Factorial PUSHA ; Save all registers on stack MOV CX,AX ; Initialize loop counter MOV AX,0 ; Initialize result CMP CX,0 ; Check for zero case JE .Done .Factorialloop: MUL CX ; AX = AX * CX LOOP Factorial ; Decrement CX, j...