The meaning of symptom-check-list scores in mental health surveys: A testing of multiple hypotheses

1978 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.B.M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Surveys ◽  
Check List ◽  
Multiple Hypotheses ◽  
Symptom Check List

scholarly journals Undergraduate students’ norms for the Chinese version of the symptom check-List-90-R (SCL-90-R)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulan Yu ◽  
Chonghua Wan ◽  
Xudong Zhao ◽  
E. Scott Huebner ◽  
Jianfeng Tan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Severity Index ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Check List ◽  
Global Severity Index ◽  
Paranoid Ideation ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Symptom Check List ◽  
The Mean

Abstract Background Despite widespread application of the Symptom Check-List-90-R (SCL-90-R) for Chinese undergraduate students, there are no appropriate norms for them. The aim of this study is to provide norms for the Chinese version of the tool for undergraduate students using a large and representative sample. Methods Four thousand eight hundred sixty students completed the scale of SCL-90. The mean scores obtained in the present study were compared with mean scores from previous normative samples. Results The mean scores for nine subscales of the SCL-90-R ranged from (1.36 ± 0.46) ~ (1.77 ± 0.63) and the mean (standard deviation) Global Severity Index (GSI) was 1.50 (0.49). Relative to previous normative studies, the findings suggested that Chinese undergraduate students’ self-reported mental health symptoms decreased in interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility, and paranoid ideation subscales. Conclusion It is necessary to revise the norms of the Chinese version of the SCL-90-R for undergraduate students.

scholarly journals Personality functioning scale: A scale to assess DSM-5’s Criterion A personality disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-53
Author(s):  
Juliana Beatriz Stover ◽  
Mercedes Fernández Liporace ◽  
Alejandro Castro Solano
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Check List ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Short Scale ◽  
Criterion A ◽  
Symptom Check List

The Section III on Emerging Measures and Models included in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, introduces a hybrid alternative approach, dimensional-categorical, to diagnose personality disorders. The Criterion A establishes the assessment of the impairment in personality functioning in terms of two dimensions: self and interpersonal. The present study was aimed at developing a short scale to measure both dimensions. The sample was composed of 342 adults from Buenos Aires city and its outskirts, with ages ranging from 19 to 82 years old (M = 39.90, SD = 13.75). Data were gathered using the Personality Functioning Scale, developed in this study, as well as the Personality Inventory for DSM‐5 Brief Form, the Mental Health Continuum Short Form, and the Symptom Check List-27. A principal components analysis conducted on 28 items found 2 factors, interpersonal and self. Internal consistency, estimated by ordinal Alphas, achieved values between .92 and .86 whilst Cronbach’s Alphas were .88 and .87. Significant and positive correlations between the Personality Functioning Scale scores on the one hand, and the Personality Inventory for DSM‐5 Brief Form scores and the Symptom Check List-27 score on the other, were found. Negative correlations between PFS scores and the Mental Health Continuum Short Form were calculated. As a result, a short scale with adequate psychometric features, suitable to assess Criterion A in adult Argentinian population has been developed.

Correlates of placebo reaction in an outpatient population

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur K. Shapiro ◽  
Elmer L. Struening ◽  
Harvey Barten ◽  
Elaine Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Placebo Response ◽  
Response Style ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Mental Health Clinic ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Check List ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Symptom Check List

SynopsisVariable s describing 113 outpatients of a mental health clinic were derived from a Placebo Test, the MMPI, a Symptom Check List, measures of response style, and a questionnaire containing historical and demographic information. Two highly reliable scales, the Placebo Effect Scale (PES) and the Side Effect Scale (SES) were derived from the Placebo Test and served as dependent variables. PES scores were inversely related to reporting symptoms and unrelated to measures of response style. SES scores were directly related to reporting symptoms and with several measures of response style. There was a curvilinear relationship between placebo response and reporting side-effects. Implications of results for further research are presented.

Establishing Chinese Middle-school Students' Mental-health Norms with the Symptom Check List-90-R

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulan Yu ◽  
Xudong Zhao ◽  
Chonghua Wan ◽  
Chuanzhi Xu ◽  
Lei Shang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
School Students ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Chinese Study ◽  
Symptom Check List ◽  
National Norms

Despite the widespread application of the Symptom Check List-90-R (SCL-90-R) with Chinese middle-school students, there are currently no widely accepted national norms for mental health specifically for this group. In this study our aim was to establish mental-health norms for Chinese middle-school students using the Chinese version of the SCL-90-R. A large sample (N = 20,862) of Chinese middle-school students completed the SCL-90-R. Their mean scores for the 9 subscales of the SCL-90-R ranged from 1.45 to 1.85. The mean General Symptomatic Index score was 1.61 ± 0.57. There were significant differences between these norms and the norms reported in a Chinese study conducted in 1986. The scores we recorded in this study can be used as new mental-health norms for this age group because the data were acquired directly through a survey using a large sample representative of middle-school students in China.

scholarly journals The relationship between resilience and loneliness elucidated by a Danish version of the resilience scale for adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Skytte Jakobsen ◽  
Lykke Mie Riis Madsen ◽  
Martin Mau ◽  
Odin Hjemdal ◽  
Oddgeir Friborg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Check List ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Danish Version ◽  
Symptom Check List ◽  
Perception Of Self ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Research on the relationship between resilience and loneliness is sparse. The construct of resilience has been conceptualized in multiple ways, including the measurement of resilience. The Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) is a measure of protective factors. The present study examined whether resiliency moderates any negative relationship between loneliness and mental health and additionally examined the psychometric properties of the Danish translation of the RSA. Methods A Danish sample (N = 422) completed the UCLA Loneliness Scale, Hopkins Symptom Check List-25 (HSCL-25), the Sense of Coherence (SOC-13), and the RSA, Resilience Scale for Adults. Results The measure of loneliness correlated significantly and negatively with most facets of the RSA, except the subscales of family cohesion and structured style. The strongest correlation was the negative one between loneliness and SOC. The results indicated that people feeling lonely also experience their life as less meaningful. Conclusion The study supports the existing six-factor structure of the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) in a Danish sample. The results indicate that all facets of resiliency were negatively related to loneliness. Also, the facets of perception of self and family coherence could explain a substantial amount of the variance associated with symptoms of depression in relation to loneliness.

Beeinträchtigtes Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsausdrücke durch psychiatrische Patientinnen bei Alexithymie

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dittrich ◽  
Gregor Domes ◽  
Susi Loebel ◽  
Christoph Berger ◽  
Carsten Spitzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Facial Emotion Recognition ◽  
Facial Emotion ◽  
Check List ◽  
Psychosomatische Erkrankungen ◽  
Psychiatrische Patienten ◽  
Symptom Check List ◽  
Tas 20

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Hypothese eines mit Alexithymie assoziierten Defizits beim Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsaudrücke an einer klinischen Population. Darüber hinaus werden Hypothesen zur Bedeutung spezifischer Emotionsqualitäten sowie zu Gender-Unterschieden getestet. 68 ambulante und stationäre psychiatrische Patienten (44 Frauen und 24 Männer) wurden mit der Toronto-Alexithymie-Skala (TAS-20), der Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Scale (MADRS), der Symptom-Check-List (SCL-90-R) und der Emotional Expression Multimorph Task (EEMT) untersucht. Als Stimuli des Gesichtererkennungsparadigmas dienten Gesichtsausdrücke von Basisemotionen nach Ekman und Friesen, die zu Sequenzen mit sich graduell steigernder Ausdrucksstärke angeordnet waren. Mittels multipler Regressionsanalyse untersuchten wir die Assoziation von TAS-20 Punktzahl und facial emotion recognition (FER). Während sich für die Gesamtstichprobe und den männlichen Stichprobenteil kein signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen TAS-20-Punktzahl und FER zeigte, sahen wir im weiblichen Stichprobenteil durch die TAS-20 Punktzahl eine signifikante Prädiktion der Gesamtfehlerzahl (β = .38, t = 2.055, p < 0.05) und den Fehlern im Erkennen der Emotionen Wut und Ekel (Wut: β = .40, t = 2.240, p < 0.05, Ekel: β = .41, t = 2.214, p < 0.05). Für wütende Gesichter betrug die Varianzaufklärung durch die TAS-20-Punktzahl 13.3 %, für angeekelte Gesichter 19.7 %. Kein Zusammenhang bestand zwischen der Zeit, nach der die Probanden die emotionalen Sequenzen stoppten, um ihre Bewertung abzugeben (Antwortlatenz) und Alexithymie. Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit unterstützen das Vorliegen eines mit Alexithymie assoziierten Defizits im Erkennen emotionaler Gesichtsausdrücke bei weiblchen Probanden in einer heterogenen, klinischen Stichprobe. Dieses Defizit könnte die Schwierigkeiten Hochalexithymer im Bereich sozialer Interaktionen zumindest teilweise begründen und so eine Prädisposition für psychische sowie psychosomatische Erkrankungen erklären.

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