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.

Wyclif and the wheel of time

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wilks
Keyword(s):  
Time Factor ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Ecclesiastical Authority ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Right Relationship ◽  
The Right ◽  
As If

During the 1370s Wyclif wrote to defend a monarchy which made extensive use of bishops and other clergy in the royal administration and yet was faced with aristocratic factions encouraged by bishops like Wykeham and Courtenay who espoused papal supremacy, if not out of conviction, at least as a very convenient weapon to support their independence against royal absolutism. At first sight Wyclifs attempts to define the right relationship between royal and episcopal, temporal and spiritual, power seem as confused as the contemporary political situation. His works contain such a wide range of theories from orthodox two swords dualism to a radical rejection of ecclesiastical authority well beyond that of Marsilius and Ockham that it seems as if his only interest was in collecting every anti-hierocratic idea available for use against the papacy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that a much more coherent view of episcopal power can be detected beneath his tirades if it is appreciated that his continual demand for a great reform, a reformatio regni et ecclesiae, is inseparably linked to his understanding of the history of the Christian Church, and that in this way Wyclif anticipates Montesquieu in requiring a time factor as a necessary ingredient in constitutional arrangements.

scholarly journals The Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH): Psychometric Evaluation and Initial Validation of the SSSH Baseline Spirituality Survey

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 150
Author(s):  
Erica T. Warner ◽  
Blake Victor Kent ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
M. Austin Argentieri ◽  
Wade C. Rowatt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Psychometric Testing ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Spirituality And Health ◽  
Wide Range

This paper describes the development and initial psychometric testing of the baseline Spirituality Survey (SS-1) from the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health (SSSH). The SS-1 contains a mixture of items selected from validated existing scales and new items generated to measure important constructs not captured by existing instruments, and our purpose here was to establish the validity of new and existing measures in a racially/ethnically diverse sample. Psychometric properties of the SS-1 were evaluated using standard psychometric analyses in 4563 SSSH participants. Predictive validity of SS-1 scales was assessed in relation to the physical and mental health component scores from the Short-Form 12 Health Survey (SF-12). Scales exhibited adequate to strong psychometric properties and demonstrated construct and predictive validity. Overall, the correlational findings provided solid evidence that the SS-1 scales are associated with a wide range of relevant R/S attitudes, mental health, and to a lesser degree physical health.

scholarly journals The Metamorphosis of the Victim of Crime: From Crime to Culture and the Implications for Justice

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Walklate
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Trauma Narrative ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
As If

Beck (2015: 81) observes, metamorphosis ‘is proceeding latently, behind the mind walls of unintended side effects, which are being constructed as ‘natural’ and ‘self-evident’. Thus Beck’s concept of metamorphosis conceives of social change as unnoticed and unacknowledged. Such change is evident in the contemporary ever present invocation of the ‘victim’ in a wide range of different, crime-soaked circumstances. This paper is concerned to explore this metamorphosis of the ‘victim’ in reflecting on two narratives: the victim narrative and the trauma narrative. The contemporary conflation of these two narratives has led Agamben (1999: 13) to suggest that policy has proceeded as if ‘“testis” (the testimony of a person as a third party in a trial or a law suit) can be conflated with “superstes” (a person who has lived through something and can thereby bear witness to it)’. The paper makes the case that this conflation has consequences for understandings of justice.

scholarly journals The Russian Aphasia Test: The first comprehensive, quantitative, standardized, and computerized aphasia language battery in Russian

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0258946
Author(s):  
Maria V. Ivanova ◽  
Yulia S. Akinina ◽  
Olga A. Soloukhina ◽  
Ekaterina V. Iskra ◽  
Olga V. Buivolova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Characteristic Curve ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Auditory Comprehension ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
Cutoff Values ◽  
Wide Range

The lack of standardized language assessment tools in Russian impedes clinical work, evidence-based practice, and research in Russian-speaking clinical populations. To address this gap in assessment of neurogenic language disorders, we developed and standardized a new comprehensive assessment instrument–the Russian Aphasia Test (RAT). The principal novelty of the RAT is that each subtest corresponds to a specific level of linguistic processing (phonological, lexical-semantic, syntactic, and discourse) in different domains: auditory comprehension, repetition, and oral production. In designing the test, we took into consideration various (psycho)linguistic factors known to influence language performance, as well as specific properties of Russian. The current paper describes the development of the RAT and reports its psychometric properties. A tablet-based version of the RAT was administered to 85 patients with different types and severity of aphasia and to 106 age-matched neurologically healthy controls. We established cutoff values for each subtest indicating deficit in a given task and cutoff values for aphasia based on the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve analysis of the composite score. The RAT showed very high sensitivity (> .93) and specificity (> .96), substantiating its validity for determining presence of aphasia. The test’s high construct validity was evidenced by strong correlations between subtests measuring similar linguistic processes. The concurrent validity of the test was also strong as demonstrated by a high correlation with an existing aphasia battery. Overall high internal, inter-rater, and test-retest reliability were obtained. The RAT is the first comprehensive aphasia language battery in Russian with properly established psychometric properties. It is sensitive to a wide range of language deficits in aphasia and can reliably characterize individual profiles of language impairments. Notably, the RAT is the first comprehensive aphasia test in any language to be fully automatized for administration on a tablet, maximizing further standardization of presentation and scoring procedures.

Psychometric Properties of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale With Adult Male Sexual Offenders

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony W. Tatman ◽  
Marc T. Swogger ◽  
Keisha Love ◽  
Michelle D. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Social Desirability Scale

Development of a Self-Report Measure of Depression-Proneness

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Zemore
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Depression Proneness ◽  
Severity Of Depression ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Report Measure

Two retrospective self-report measures of depression-proneness were constructed and their psychometric properties investigated. A sample of 75 female students, selected to provide a wide range of depression-proneness scores, completed the two depression-proneness self-reports along with a measure of current severity of depression. A second session (retest) was conducted 4 mo. later. Subjects were then rated for degree of depression-proneness by two or more close friends and family members. Test-retest and coefficient alpha estimates of reliability were sufficiently high to recommend both depression-proneness measures as research instruments. Both self-report measures correlated significantly; rs = .38 and .41 with friends' and families' ratings of depression-proneness, which provides evidence for the validity of the depression-proneness measures. Little or no evidence was found for the discriminant validity of these measures. The advantages of retrospective self-reports over alternative approaches for identifying depression-prone individuals are discussed.

Multi-dimensional Assessment of IPF Across a Wide Range of Disease Severity

Lung ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 196 (6) ◽  
pp. 707-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Serajeddini ◽  
Paola Rogliani ◽  
Marco Mura
Keyword(s):  
Disease Severity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Dimensional Assessment

scholarly journals Convergent Validity of Three Measures of Sexual Sadism: Value of a Dimensional Measure

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Longpré ◽  
Jean Proulx ◽  
Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual Sadism ◽  
Sexual Excitation ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual

Sexual sadism can be described as the sexual pleasure produced by acts of cruelty and bodily punishment. The most common method for evaluating sexual sadism is clinical evaluation, that is, evaluation based on the diagnostic criteria of nosological instruments such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM) or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). It is also possible to evaluate sadistic sexual preferences by phallometry, which provides a physiological measure of sexual excitation by deviant and nondeviant scenarios. The most recently developed evaluation method is the Severe Sexual Sadism Scale (SESAS), a dimensional instrument that has been empirically validated. Despite the availability of all these measurement techniques, very little research has been conducted on their degree of convergence. Consequently, the aim of the current study was to assess the relationship between these three measures of sexual sadism. Our analyses were conducted on a sample of rapists ( N = 72), assessed in a maximum-security penitentiary. There was no significant relation between phallometric scores and other measures of sexual sadism. There was, however, an important correlation between SESAS scores and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV) sexual sadism diagnosis. Our results are consistent with other phallometric studies, which reported no difference in the penile responses of individuals diagnosed as sadists and those not diagnosed as sadists. Results and implications for future research are discussed.

Diagnostic Arthroscopy: Indications and Interpretation of Findings

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. SENNWALD
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Distal Part ◽  
Direct Vision ◽  
Dynamic Evaluation ◽  
Diagnostic Arthroscopy ◽  
Wrist Fusion ◽  
Real Challenge ◽  
As If

Many authors recommend arthroscopy for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Arthroscopy is a sophisticated investigation, which can cause damage requiring wrist fusion. It allows visualization of findings, but these are subtle and difficult, if not impossible to interpret, since the contralateral wrist cannot be used as a standard for comparison. Furthermore, not all intracarpal ligaments are directly and reliably visible through the arthroscope: for example the scaphoid-trapezial ligament which is essential for the stabilization of the distal part of the scaphoid. Therefore, it is questionable whether we can define arthroscopy as a gold standard of diagnosis just because it permits direct vision, as if what cannot be seen does not exist! Traction, mandatory for examination, induces particular stresses that may distort intracarpal motion and so-called dynamic evaluation. Each author tends to present a specific classification, rendering comprehension even more difficult. Accordingly, teaching and learning become a real challenge. Arthroscopy may be important in particular cases, but it remains only one component of a complex clinical assessment.

scholarly journals Powers of the Secular Modern

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Isa Blumi
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
Western World ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
As If

For more than three decades, anthropologist Talal Asad has challenged thegoverning assumptions of western “knowledge” of the non-western world.In fact, his itinerate career marks the parameters of a dynamic and crucialperiod in western academia. It is Asad’s undermining of British socialanthropology in the late 1960s and ethnographic functionalism in generalthat anticipates the postcolonial theories that would emerge many years later.More than being a simple icon of a generation that challenged the conventionsof Orientalism, it is Asad’s essential (if often unacknowledged) contributionto our current self-critical engagement with the larger world thatmakes this book so valuable.  At the heart of this book is an invaluable exercise of productive engagementand dialogue arranged by the editors. The clever manner in whichAsad’s most complex and often misunderstood interventions on power, theWest, and the study of the non-western world is put into action in a uniqueway. By bringing together nine quite different scholars who invest considerableenergy in their papers, we are treated to an honest exploration of Asad’scontribution to a wide range of disciplines. Well-known sociologist of religionJose Casanova; anthropologists Steve Caton, Veena Das, and ParthaChatterjee; and renowned political scientists William E. Connolly and Hentde Vries all clearly took their task seriously. Perhaps the most fruitful outcomeof this exercise is the intimacy of the engagement. In many ways, thisbook reads as if the readers are listening to a round-table session that provescrucial to understanding Asad’s influence on how all of these scholars ofreligion have reframed their work over the years ...

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