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Are validation scales useful for Detecting Deliberately Faked Personality Tests? A study in incarcerated populations
2012
Personality self-report questionnaires are frequently used in forensic settings to detect psychopathology, to predict recidivism, and to assess adaptability to life in prison. Although most personality questionnaires include validity or control scales, even with the scales most outcomes can be easily manipulated. The aim of this study is to analyze the utility of the control scales of the Situational Personality Questionnaire. A sample of 200 male prisoners was randomized into two groups. Both groups completed the SPQ as a part of the mandatory psychological assessment when they entered prison, and then again 8 months later. In time 2, one group received instructions to falsify the results …
Access to autobiographical memory as an emotion regulation strategy and its relation to dispositional mindfulness
2016
Mindfulness research has extensively focused on mechanisms that make it work. Emotional regulation (ER) has been proposed as one of the mechanisms to explain the effects of mindfulness on health. ER is composed of a broad set of strategies, such as the use of autobiographical memory (AM), which refers to the recollection of personally experienced past events to regulate the emotion (i.e., remembering a positive past event in order to calm anxiety). Authors suggest that mindfulness and AM are related. However, few studies exist to explore this relationship that could promote a more adaptive ER. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between the mindfulness trait and the use of …
Does level of leisure time physical activity, in a sample of patients with depression, predict health care utilization over a subsequent 5-year perio…
2018
Objectives: The main aim of this study was to investigate the association between leisure time physical activity (LTPA) and health care utilization (HCU) and furthermore, socio-demographic and clinical factors according to LTPA level among depressed patients based on data drawn from the Finnish Depression and Metabolic Syndrome in Adults (FDMSA)-study (2009-2016). Methods: 447 depressed patients aged 35-65 from municipalities within the Central Finland Hospital District participated in this study. Depressive symptoms (DS) were determined with the Beck Depression Inventory (a 10 points) and the psychiatric diagnosis confirmed with a diagnostic interview (M.I.N.I.). Severity of depression was…
Task 38 Solar Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration “Life Cycle Assessment of Solar Cooling Systems” A technical report of subtask D Subtask Activity D3
2010
Renewable energy (RE) systems can certainly allow reducing the use of fossil fuels and the related environmental impacts for building air-conditioning. It is more and more clear that good design of the system and appropriateness of the technology are a key issues on the way to maximise the benefits. Therefore, for systems dealing with solar thermal systems, it has been experienced that wrong choices among RE technologies to meet specific applications could also lead to negative effects in terms of Primary Energy (PE) saving.
Reasons for Exercise Inventory koulukyselyssä : mittarin reliabiliteetti- ja rakennevaliditeettitarkastelua
2005
Tässä artikkelissa raportoidaan aikuisille kehitetyn Reasons for exercise inventory:n (REI) käyttökokeilua yläkoululaisilla. Mittaria esitestattiin WHO-Koululaistutkimuksen vuoden 2006 kyselyä varten osana esi- ja luotettavuustutkimusta, joka toteutettiin Itä- ja Länsi-Suomen lääneissä helmikuussa 2005. Oppilaat täyttivät kaksi samansisältöistä kyselyä kahden viikon välein. REI-mittarin väittämiin vastasi 194 seitsemäs- ja yhdeksäsluokkalaista peruskoululaista. REI-mittarin pysyvyyttä arvioitiin testi-uusintatesti-korrelaatioiden (Intraclass-korrelaatiokerroin, Spearmanin järjestyskorrelaatio, Pearsonin tulomomenttikorrelaatio) avulla. Pääkomponenttianalyysin avulla saaduista liikuntasyiden…