Clinical assessment of ASD in adults using self- and other-report: Psychometric properties and validity of the Adult Social Behavior Questionnaire (ASBQ)

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.H. Horwitz ◽  
R.A. Schoevers ◽  
C.E.J. Ketelaars ◽  
C.C. Kan ◽  
A.M.D.N. van Lammeren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Self And Other

Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Parent Reported Quality of Life Pre and Post Vision Therapy in a Population with Autism Spectrum Disorder

2019 ◽  
pp. 195-207
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Visual Behavior ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Vision Therapy

Background: Autism spectrum disorder is characterized in part by atypical behavior in the communication, social, and visual domains. Success in vision therapy is judged not only by changes in optometric findings, but through improvement in quality of life involving communication, social behavior and visual behavior. It would therefore be beneficial to have a validated questionnaire to assess parent reported quality of life pre and post vision therapy specific to patients with autism spectrum disorder. To our knowledge, a questionnaire of this nature has not been previously published in the literature. Methods: Questionnaire items were generated through surveying medical literature based on symptoms in three different categories: visual behavior, social behavior and communication. A pool of 34 questions was developed initially and then with thorough discussion with other experts, a 20-point questionnaire was developed with each item reflected in the construct concept. A draft of 20 questions was then sent to 10 subject experts with clinical experience in the field for more than 20 years, to review the pooled items. Validity and reliability was established prior to assessing the psychometric properties of the ASD/QOL-VT. Prospective observational study was conducted for a duration of 18 months. The study included individuals undergoing vision therapy in the age range of 3 to 15 years who had been diagnosed with ASD. The questionnaire was administered to parents of these children prior to the start of vision therapy. All subjects completed a minimum of 60 vision therapy sessions. The questionnaire was readministered after completing 60 sessions of vision therapy. Results: Cronbach’s alpha value for this questionnaire was 0.93, which reflected very good internal consistency. Factorial analysis yielded four factors with an Eigen value exceeding 1.0 which accounted for 68% variation in the model. The Cronbach alpha value for subscales identified by factorial analysis is 0.97 indicating excellent internal reliability. The mean pre vision therapy social behavior, communication and visual behavior score was 12.0±3.21, 17.07±4.57 and 26.97±6.41 respectively. The mean post vision therapy scores for social behavior, communication and visual behavior was 8.27±4.16, 11.33±5.27 and 17.93±6.52 respectively. On paired t test, the mean difference in score was statistically significant with P<0.001 in all three subcategories. Conclusions: Our study presents the development of a valid and reliable parent questionnaire, the ASD/QOL-VT, that judges communication, social behavior, and visual behavior in autism. Results of the study conducted indicate that vision therapy can result in significant improvements in the quality of life of patients with ASD as judged by their parents. This is evidenced by statistically significant changes in psychometric properties of the ASD/QOL-VT in social behavior, communication and visual behavior.

scholarly journals The Human Dynamic Clamp reveals the fronto-parietal network linking real-time social coordination and cognition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Dumas ◽  
Q. Moreau ◽  
E. Tognoli ◽  
J.A.S. Kelso
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Dynamic Clamp ◽  
Sensorimotor Coordination ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
Sensorimotor Mechanisms ◽  
The Brain

AbstractHow does the brain allow us to interact with others, and above all how does it handle situations when the goals of the interactors overlap (i.e. cooperation) or differ (i.e. competition)? Social neuroscience has already provided some answers to these questions but has tended to treat high-level, cognitive interpretations of social behavior separately from the sensorimotor mechanisms upon which they rely. The goal here is to identify the underlying neural processes and mechanisms linking sensorimotor coordination and intention attribution. We combine the Human Dynamic Clamp (HDC), a novel paradigm for studying realistic social behavior between self and other in well-controlled laboratory conditions, with high resolution electroencephalography (EEG). The collection of humanness and intention attribution reports, kinematics and neural data affords an opportunity to relate brain activity to the behavior of the HDC as well as to what the human is doing. Behavioral results demonstrate that sensorimotor coordination influences judgements of cooperativeness and humanness. Analysis of brain dynamics reveals two distinct networks related to integration of visuo-motor information from self and other. The two networks overlap over the right parietal region, an area known to be important for interpersonal motor interactions. Furthermore, connectivity analysis highlights how the judgement of humanness and cooperation of others modulate the connection between the right parietal hub and prefrontal cortex. These results reveal how distributed neural dynamics integrates information from ‘low-level’ sensorimotor mechanisms and ‘high-level’ social cognition to support the realistic social behaviors that play out in real time during interactive scenarios.Significance StatementDaily social interactions require us to coordinate with others and to reflect on their potential motives. This study investigates the brain and behavioral dynamics of these two key aspects of social cognition. Combining high-density electroencephalography and the Human Dynamic Clamp (a Virtual Partner endowed with human-based coordination dynamics), we show first, that several features of sensorimotor coordination influence attribution of intention and judgement of humanness; second, that the right parietal lobe is a key integration hub between information related to self- and other-behavior; and third, that the posterior online social hub is functionally coupled to anterior offline brain structures to support mentalizing about others. Our results stress the complementary nature of low-level and high-level mechanisms that underlie social cognition.

scholarly journals MTC Sadism Scale: Toward a Dimensional Assessment of Severe Sexual Sadism With Behavioral Markers

Assessment ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Longpré ◽  
Jean-Pierre Guay ◽  
Raymond A. Knight
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Sexual Sadism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dimensional Assessment ◽  
Behavioral Markers ◽  
As If

Sadism was initially described as the experience of sexual pleasure produced by acts of cruelty and bodily punishment. Sadism was conceptualized as if sadists were fundamentally different from nonsadists. Recent studies have suggested that sadism is distributed as a dimension rather than as a category. The aim of the current study was to assess the psychometric properties the MTC Sexual Sadism Scale. Our analyses were conducted on a sample of 486 sexual offenders assessed at a correctional institution in Massachusetts. In summary, the results indicate that the MTC Sexual Sadism Scale possesses good psychometric properties for the dimensional assessment of severe sexual sadism with behavioral markers. Moreover, the scale captures a wide range of intensity of sadism among sexual offenders. These results are consistent with prior research and support the current consensus to move toward a dimensional interpretation of sadism. Implications both for clinical assessment and for research on the development of sadism are discussed.

Instruments to Assess Social Functioning in Individuals with Dementia: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 619-637
Author(s):  
Jessica Grothe ◽  
Georg Schomerus ◽  
Jens Dietzel ◽  
Steffi Riedel-Heller ◽  
Susanne Röhr
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Observation Scale ◽  
The Social ◽  
Diagnosis Of Dementia ◽  
Detection And Diagnosis ◽  
Meta Analyses

Background: Social functioning is an important parameter for the early detection and diagnosis of dementia, as well as the description of its course and the assessment of intervention effects. Therefore, valid and reliable instruments to measure social functioning in individuals with dementia are needed. Objective: We aimed to provide an overview of such instruments including information on feasibility and psychometric properties. Methods: The review is informed by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Relevant literature was identified using a pre-specified search string in the databases MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Web of Science. Information on the characteristics, feasibility, and psychometric properties of the identified instruments were extracted, summarized, and discussed. Results: Out of 5,307 articles, 8 were selected to be included in the study, describing a total of three instruments for measuring social functioning in individuals with dementia: the Nurses’ Observation Scale for Geriatric Patients (NOSGER; dimension “social behavior”), the Socioemotional Dysfunction Scale (SDS), and the Social Functioning in Dementia Scale (SF-DEM). The validity of all the three instruments was overall acceptable. Reliability was high for the NOSGER scale “social behavior” and the SF-DEM. Information on the usability of the instruments tended to be scarce. Conclusion: There are a few valid and reliable instruments to assess social functioning in individuals with dementia. Further considerations could comprise their feasibility with regard to measuring changes in social functioning over time, in additional target groups, e.g., different types and stages of dementia, and adaptions to different languages and cultural backgrounds.

scholarly journals Development and Psychometric Properties of the Standardized Assessment of Severity of Personality Disorder (SASPD)

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kike Olajide ◽  
Jasna Munjiza ◽  
Paul Moran ◽  
Lesley O'Connell ◽  
Giles Newton-Howes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Roc Curve ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Standardized Assessment ◽  
Cut Points ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
High Intraclass Correlation Coefficient

Personality disorder (PD) is increasingly categorized according to its severity, but there is no simple way to screen for severity according to ICD-11 criteria. We set out to develop the Standardized Assessment of Severity of Personality Disorder (SASPD). A total of 110 patients completed the SASPD together with a clinical assessment of the severity of personality disorder. We examined the predictive ability of the SASPD using the area under the ROC curve (AUC). Two to four weeks later, 43 patients repeated the SASPD to examine reliability. The SASPD had good predictive ability for determining mild (AUC = 0.86) and moderate (AUC = 0.84) PD at cut points of 8 and 10, respectively. Test-retest reliability of the SASPD was high (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.93, 95% CI [0.88, 0.96]). The SASPD thus provides a simple, brief, and reliable indicator of the presence of mild or moderate PD according to ICD-11 criteria.

Locus of Control of Interpersonal Relationships Questionnaire

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Lewis ◽  
Thomas Cheney ◽  
A. Stephen Dawes
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Control Measure ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Specific Locus

To facilitate investigation of adult social behavior a situation-specific locus-of-control measure, patterned after Rotter's I-E scale, was developed. Using a forced-choice format, the 23-item Locus of Control of Interpersonal Relationships Questionnaire was constructed; it yielded adequate psychometric properties and sufficient construct validity to warrant further research.

Psychometric Properties and Validity of the Dyadic Coping Inventory in Portuguese

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Vedes ◽  
Fridtjof W. Nussbeck ◽  
Guy Bodenmann ◽  
Wolfgang Lind ◽  
Ana Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Dyadic Coping ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Additional Tool ◽  
Conflict Processes ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Dyadic Coping Inventory

Several studies have shown that dyadic coping, that is, the way couples cope with stress, plays a unique role in intimate relationships. The aim of this study is to validate the Portuguese version of the Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI; Bodenmann, 2008 ) by analyzing the factorial structure and psychometric properties of the DCI as well as its convergent and criterion validity. A multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was conducted in a community sample of 605 participants living in Portugal who had been in a close relationship for at least 2 years. The findings support the hypothesized five-factor structure for the DCI and self- and other-perception, and a two-factor structure for joint dyadic coping. The psychometric properties of the DCI and its criterion validity with other relationship measures (RAS and B-SRQ) were good. These results add an important contribution to the determination of the criterion validity of the DCI with measures of other crucial domains of couples’ functioning (Shared Meaning, Conflict Processes, and Quality of Sexuality, Passion, and Romance); to the cross-cultural validation of the DCI; and to the demonstration that negative DC has a significant effect on intimate relationship processes, which contradicts the findings of previous studies. Moreover, it provides an additional tool for working with Portuguese-speaking individuals all over the world.

scholarly journals Polish adaptation The State Self-Forgiveeness Scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-392
Author(s):  
Justyna Mróz ◽  
Wojciech Sornat
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Internal Validity ◽  
The State ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Self Forgiveness ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
Confirmatory Analysis ◽  
Polish Adaptation

The aim of the presented study was to Polish version of The State Self-Forgiveness Scale (Wohl i in., 2008) – Skala Epizodycznego Przebaczenia Sobie. The scale is used to assess self-forgiveness after wrongdoing towards self and other persons. The scale consists of 17 items and two subscales describing feelings and actions as well as beliefs towards oneself, which are to lead to self-forgiveness. Four hundred forty four (Mage =27.8, SD=9.9) participated in the study. Both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory analysis were performed to determine the psychometric properties (RMSEA 0,048, GFI 0,924, PCLOSE 0,556). In order to determine the internal consistency was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha (0,80-0,86). The internal validity was assessed by Heartland Forgiveness Scale. The obtained results showed that the Polish version of The State Self-forgiveness Scale as tool with good psychometric properties and to recommend it for the assessment of self-forgiveness both in research.

scholarly journals Early Childhood Social Competence Scale (EC-SCS): Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 6262
Author(s):  
Antonio Fernández-Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Competence ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Competence Scale ◽  
Joint Consideration ◽  
Suitable Measure

The Early Childhood Social Competence Scale (EC-SCS) was elaborated to evaluate social behavior on behalf of others in infantile populations. Due to the emergence and development of these behaviors from very early ages, the interest in its assessment is high from a developmental, educational, and applied perspective. The aim of the present study is to develop a Spanish population version of the scale, considering a specific dimensional structure. It was tested with a sample of 504 children of ages between 3 and 5 years, enrolled in school centers of infantile education. The results show that the new version of the instrument is a suitable measure for the assessment of social competence behaviors in early infancy. The joint consideration of prosocial and unfriendly behavior is important as it allows for the promotion of social competence behaviors and optimizes the detection of and intervention in behavioral problems later in life.

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