Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their corresponding measures. It highlights topics relevant to clinical and neuropsychological domains, including cognitive abilities, adaptive behavior, temperament, and psychopathology.Moreover, the book examines a series of standard as well as novel methods and instruments, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies, and their cross-cultural applications.
1. Cover - p. i 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. Preface - p. iv 6. Part I: Psychometric Foundations of Test Construction and Psychological Assessment - p. xiii 7. Chapter 1: Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test Construction - p. xiii 8. Chapter 2: Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory, and Item Response Perspectives on Reliability - p. 25 9. Chapter 3: Validity - p. 44 10. Chapter 4: Advances in Latent Variable Measurement Modeling - p. 66 11. Part II: Metacognitive, Cognitive, Social Cognitive, Memory, and Behavioral Implications of Neurodevelopmental Disorders - p. 88 12. Chapter 5: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior - p. 88 13. Chapter 6: Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCD - p. 130 14. Part III: Temperament, Personality and Their Clinical Implications - p. 153 15. Chapter 7: The Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology - p. 153 16. Chapter 8: The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes - p. 185 17. Chapter 9: Perspectives and Advances in Personality - p. 222 18. Chapter 10: Measures of Personality - p. 265 19. Part IV: Developments in the Domains of Psychopathology, Psychiatric Taxonomies and Assessment of Clinical Disorders - p. 289 20. Chapter 11: Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology - p. 289 21. Chapter 12: Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding Measures - p. 342 22. Part V: Aggression and Violence: Efforts to Predict their Outcomes - p. 380 23. Chapter 13: Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology - p. 380 24. Chapter 14: General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures - p. 403 25. Chapter 15: The Aggressive Implications of Suicide - p. 438 26. Index - p. 472
Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their corresponding measures. It highlights topics relevant to clinical and neuropsychological domains, including cognitive abilities, adaptive behavior, temperament, and psychopathology.Moreover, the book examines a series of standard as well as novel methods and instruments, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies, and their cross-cultural applications.
1. Cover - p. i 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. Preface - p. iv 6. Part I: Psychometric Foundations of Test Construction and Psychological Assessment - p. xiii 7. Chapter 1: Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test Construction - p. xiii 8. Chapter 2: Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory, and Item Response Perspectives on Reliability - p. 25 9. Chapter 3: Validity - p. 44 10. Chapter 4: Advances in Latent Variable Measurement Modeling - p. 66 11. Part II: Metacognitive, Cognitive, Social Cognitive, Memory, and Behavioral Implications of Neurodevelopmental Disorders - p. 88 12. Chapter 5: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior - p. 88 13. Chapter 6: Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCD - p. 130 14. Part III: Temperament, Personality and Their Clinical Implications - p. 153 15. Chapter 7: The Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology - p. 153 16. Chapter 8: The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes - p. 185 17. Chapter 9: Perspectives and Advances in Personality - p. 222 18. Chapter 10: Measures of Personality - p. 265 19. Part IV: Developments in the Domains of Psychopathology, Psychiatric Taxonomies and Assessment of Clinical Disorders - p. 289 20. Chapter 11: Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology - p. 289 21. Chapter 12: Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding Measures - p. 342 22. Part V: Aggression and Violence: Efforts to Predict their Outcomes - p. 380 23. Chapter 13: Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology - p. 380 24. Chapter 14: General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures - p. 403 25. Chapter 15: The Aggressive Implications of Suicide - p. 438 26. Index - p. 472
