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Psychological Assessment

Psychological Assessment

Editor: Julie A. Suhr
ISSN 1040-3590
eISSN 1939-134X
Open access offered
Published monthly
Impact factor 3.1
5-year impact factor 4.4
Psychology - Clinical 43 of 184

Psychological Assessment® is concerned mainly with empirical research relevant to assessments conducted in the broad field of clinical psychology. Integrative reviews of research in this area are also welcome.

Relevant topics include:

  • clinical judgment and the application of decision-making models;
  • paradigms derived from basic psychological research in cognition, personality–social psychology, and biological psychology;
  • development, validation, and application of assessment instruments, scales, observational methods, and interviews;
  • research on clinical judgment and decision-making; and
  • studies supporting or leading to translation of basic psychological research in cognition, personality–social psychology, and biological psychology to clinical psychological assessment.

The focus of the journal is on all aspects of clinical assessment.

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Psychological Assessment welcomes submissions that align with its submission guidelines.

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Reliable and clinically significant change in the clinician-administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 and PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 among male veterans.

Marx, Brian P.; Lee, Daniel J.; Norman, Sonya B.; Bovin, Michelle J.; Sloan, Denise M.; Weathers, Frank W.; Keane, Terence M.; Schnurr, Paula P.

Assessing the reliability of single-item momentary affective measurements in experience sampling.

Dejonckheere, Egon; Demeyer, Febe; Geusens, Birte; Piot, Maarten; Tuerlinckx, Francis; Verdonck, Stijn; Mestdagh, Merijn

Creating an antiracist psychology by addressing professional complicity in psychological assessment.

Byrd, Desiree A.; Rivera Mindt, Monica M.; Clark, Uraina S.; Clarke, Yusuf; Thames, April D.; Gammada, Emnet Z.; Manly, Jennifer J.

Themes of the dark core of personality.

Bader, Martina; Hartung, Johanna; Hilbig, Benjamin E.; Zettler, Ingo; Moshagen, Morten; Wilhelm, Oliver

Is the PHQ-9 a unidimensional measure of depression? A 58,272-participant study.

Bianchi, Renzo; Verkuilen, Jay; Toker, Sharon; Schonfeld, Irvin Sam; Gerber, Markus; Brähler, Elmar; Kroenke, Kurt

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How intellectual disability may bias psychologists’ clinical impressions: An examination of diagnostic overshadowing.

Dell'Armo, Kristin; Tassé, Marc J.

Development and initial validation of Personality Disorder Syndrome scales for the MMPI-3.

Sellbom, Martin; Brown, Tiffany A.; Waugh, Mark H.; Hopwood, Christopher J.

Anxiety and depression screening across diverse populations: Testing measurement and structural invariance of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder–7 and Patient Health Questionnaire–9 across Black and White groups.

Whittington, D. Drew; Borgogna, Nicholas C.

Interpreting the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) for individuals with traumatic brain injury: Clinical correlates and empirical severity cutoffs.

Fox, Tayla; Samiotis, Alexia; Ponsford, Jennie; Spitz, Gershon; Carmichael, Jai

Assessing difficulties in regulating negative and positive emotions: The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Expanded (DERS-X).

Zhang, Di; Liu, Sihan; Lian, Yanan; Gu, Honglei; Liu, Zhenhua; Mi, Guolin; Zhang, Meng; Gross, James J.; Wu, Xinchun

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