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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Accuracy of self-reported weight and height among women with eating disorders: a replication and extension study.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Self-reported height and weight data are commonly reported within eating disorders research, and often used clinically. The aims of this study are to demonstrate the accuracy of self-reported height and weight among a group of women with ... Read more...

Risk and protective factors for disturbed eating in adolescent girls - aspects of perfectionism and attitudes to eating and weight.

30 Aug 2009 The aim of this study was to longitudinally examine the role of personal standards, self-evaluation, perceived benefits of thinness and attitudes to eating and weight in the development of healthy versus disturbed eating in adolescent girls. In a ... Read more...

Identification of postpartum depression.

30 Aug 2009 Postpartum depression (PPD) is the most common medical complication of childbearing. Universal screening maximizes the likelihood of prompt identification of PPD. Obstetrician-gynecologists routinely evaluate postpartum women for a general health ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychological Tests'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Learning from history: a commentary on the American Heart Association Science Advisory on depression screening. 29 Sep 2009
• Accuracy of self-reported weight and height among women with eating disorders: a replication and extension study. 30 Aug 2009
• Risk and protective factors for disturbed eating in adolescent girls - aspects of perfectionism and attitudes to eating and weight. 30 Aug 2009
• Identification of postpartum depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of antenatal and postpartum maternal mental illness: how are the children? 30 Aug 2009
• Estimation of IRT graded response models: limited versus full information methods. 30 Aug 2009
• Subject-centered scalability: the sine qua non of summated ratings. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of acute tryptophan depletion on mood and eating-related urges in bulimic and nonbulimic women. 30 Aug 2009
• Depressive symptoms and brain volumes in older adults: a longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of overnight sleep restriction on brain chemistry and mood in women with unipolar depression and healthy controls. 30 Aug 2009
• Protecting raw data and psychological tests from wrongful disclosure: a primer on the law and other persuasive strategies. 30 Aug 2009
• Assessment and management of dangerous and severe personality disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Optimism/pessimism and health-related quality of life during pregnancy across three continents: a matched cohort study in China, Ghana, and the United States. 30 Aug 2009
• Predicting fitness to drive in people with cognitive impairments by using DriveSafe and DriveAware. 30 Aug 2009
• Fitting measurement models to vocational interest data: are dominance models ideal? 30 Aug 2009
• Brain activation to favorite music in healthy controls and depressed patients. 24 Aug 2009
• Evaluation of changes in postnatal care using the "Parents' Postnatal Sense of Security" instrument and an assessment of the instrument's reliability and validity. 10 Aug 2009
• Neuroticism, intelligence, and intra-individual variability in elementary cognitive tasks: testing the mental noise hypothesis. 30 Jul 2009
• [Competence between propioceptive and exteroceptive conditional stimuli in a conditional discrimination task] 30 Jul 2009
• The distillation of "VISCI": towards a better identification of suicidal inmates. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychological Tests'

Definition: Standardized tests designed to measure abilities, as in intelligence, aptitude, and achievement tests, or to evaluate personality traits.

Descriptor UI: D011581

Alternative terms: Psychological Tests; Test, Psychological; Psychologic Tests; Psychologic Test; Test, Psychologic; Tests, Psychologic; Psychological Test; Tests, Psychological;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: F04.711;

Technical Notes: DF: PSYCHOL TESTS