Assessment of the hypochondriasis domain: The multidimensional inventory of hypochondriacal traits (MIHT)

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The multidimensional inventory hypochondriacal traits (MIHT) were reliably and validly measured with the help of four-component instrument that consisted of Affective, Cognitive, Behavioral, and Perceptual scales. The good convergent and discriminant validity of the MIHT scales suggests that the traits measured by the scales share sufficient variance to tap difference aspects of the same syndrome.

Hypochondria, Hypochondriasis

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A brief version of the Geriatric Depression Scale for the Chinese

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Elderly persons attending outpatient psychiatric clinics were given an interview on the 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale and received an independent psychiatric evaluation. A 3-step binary logistic regression showed that two items measuring positive affect and two others measuring negative affect combined to produce diagnostic performance comparable with the full scale.

Depression in old age, Geriatric depression, Psychodiagnostics

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Response styles in the assessment of anger expression

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The usage of mixture distribution item response models for detection of different response styles in the clinical assessment of anger expression is demonstrated. Both psychologically meaningful biases and nonmeaningful response category preferences were reflected by the response styles.

Anger, Survey response rates

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