Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 244-252, March 2025.
Some wish to mandate preregistration as a response to the replication crisis, while I and others caution that such mandates inadvertently cause harm and distract from more critical reforms. In this article, after briefly critiquing a recently published ...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 206-223, March 2025.
To shed light on the dynamics of psychological processes, researchers often collect intensive longitudinal (IL) data by asking people to repeatedly report on their momentary experiences in daily life. Two important decisions when designing an IL study ...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 170-189, March 2025.
Replication provides a confrontation of psychological theory, not only in experimental research, but also in model-based research. Goodness of fit (GOF) of the original model to the replication data is routinely provided as meaningful evidence of ...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 224-234, March 2025.
Campbell’s Law explains the replication crisis. In brief, useful tools such as hypotheses,p-values, and multi-study designs came to be viewed as indicators of strong science, and thus goals in and of themselves. Consequently, their use became distorted ...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 235-243, March 2025.
In his commentary, Klonsky outlines several arguments for why preregistration mandates (PRMs) will have a negative impact on the field. Klonsky’s overarching concern is that when preregistration ceases to be a tool for research and becomes an indicator of ...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 283-299, March 2025.
Personality dysfunction is a core element of the diagnosis of personality disorders in both main diagnostic systems (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders[5th ed.] Personality Disorders andICD-11[International Classification of Diseases,...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 269-282, March 2025.
Portable and flexible administration of manual dexterity assessments is necessary to monitor recovery from brain injury and the effects of interventions across clinic and home settings, especially when in-person testing is not possible or convenient. This ...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 253-268, March 2025.
The interpersonal problem circumplex is extensively used in the field as an assessment framework for understanding the interpersonal implications of a range of personality and psychopathology constructs. The vast majority of this large literature has been ...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 190-205, March 2025.
Latent variable modeling as a lens for psychometric theory is a popular tool for social scientists to examine measurement of constructs. Journals, such asAssessmentregularly publish articles supporting measures of latent constructs wherein a measurement ...

Assessment, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 167-169, March 2025.
The goal of this special section was to encourage discussion about replication in assessment science, as well as the use and development of registered replication and open science more broadly. The contributions span a range of topics, from the ...

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The Persecutory Ideation Questionnaire (PIQ) is a valuable instrument to measure persecutory ideation. The aim of this study is to validate the scale in the Italian context and to extend the study of its psychometric properties using approaches from both ...

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The UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Model and the various psychometric instruments developed and validated based on this model are well established in clinical and research settings. However, evidence regarding the psychometric validity, reliability, and ...

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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) includes a new Impulsivity (IMP) scale designed to assess for poor impulse-control and non-planful behavior, which was added to broaden the utility of the instrument. The current study aimed to ...

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Many scales used in psychological and health research are designed to yield subscores, yet it is common to see total scores reported instead. One challenge of using subscores is they can lack adequate reliability due to their shortened length. However, ...

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Feelings of entrapment—posited to arise when attempts to escape from defeating or humiliating circumstances are blocked—may confer increased risk for psychopathology and suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB), particularly among minoritized individuals who ...

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Experimental cognitive tests are designed to measure particular cognitive domains, although evidence supporting test validity is often limited. The Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics test battery administered 23 experimental and traditional ...

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In this study, we aimed to expand the domain specificity of grit by exploring it in the realm of parenting. Parental grit was defined as parents’ inclination to demonstrate perseverance, sustained passion, and adaptability in pursuing long-term parenting ...

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The present study applied taxometric analyses to the Washington Assessment of Risks and Needs of Students (WARNS)—an instrument designed to assess multiple domains of functioning related to justice system involvement arising from school disengagement—a ...

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This study examined associations of compliance rate with the reliability and convergent validity of intoxication and negative affect assessments in experience sampling method (ESM) data in three samples (Veterans, Sexual Minority Men, and College Students)...

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This study examined the item- and scale-level functioning of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS) as well as differential functioning by gender using an item response theory (IRT) analysis. SAAS data collected from 840 college students were ...