Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications

Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their corresponding measures. It highlights topics relevant to clinical and neuropsychological domains, including cognitive abilities, adaptive behavior, temperament, and psychopathology.Moreover, the book examines a series of standard as well as novel methods and instruments, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies, and their cross-cultural applications.

Discusses psychometric issues and empirical studies that speak to sameExplores the family context in relation to children’s behavioral outcomesFeatures major personality measures as well as their cross cultural variationsIdentifies the importance of coping and resilience in assessing personality and psychopathologyExamines precursors of aggression and violence for prediction and prevention

PART I: PSYCHOMETRIC FOUNDATIONS OF TEST CONSTRUCTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT 1. Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test Construction 2. Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Item Response Perspectives on Reliability 3. Validity 4. Advances in Latent Variable Measurement Modeling

PART II: METACOGNITIVE, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL COGNITIVE, MEMORY AND BEHAVIORAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS 5. Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior 6. Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCD

PART III: TEMPERAMENT, PERSONALITY AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS 7. The Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology 8. The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes 9. Perspectives and Advances in Personality 10. Measures of Personality

PART IV: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DOMAINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRIC TAXONOMIES AND ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL DISORDERS 11. Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology 12. Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding Measures

PART V: AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE: EFFORTS TO PREDICT THEIR OUTCOMES 13. Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology 14. General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures 15. The Aggressive Implications of Suicide