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Fragebogen "Zwangsassoziierte Gedanken und Gefühle" (ZAGG)
Neumann, A., Reinecker, H. & Geissner, E. (2022)
The ZAGG enables the assessment of metacognitions in obsessive-compulsive disorders. It comprises a total of 41 items, which are divided into three dimensions "thoughts and feelings of worthlessness", "control - responsibility - perfectionism" and "doubt". On the basis of a pilot study and with reference to expert judgments, the dimension and items were formed from ten characteristic topic areas for obsessive-compulsive disorders. Reliability: The internal consistency according to Cronbach of the subscales was between α = .94 and α = .84. The retest reliability after 5 days was rtt = .85 for the first subscale, rtt = .75 for the second, and rtt = .72 for the third subscale. Validity: The convergent validity was examined by correlation with the Y-BOCS and the IBRO. The questionnaire correlates with the Y-BOCS and the IBRO especially in the doubt subscale. Discriminant validity was examined with the BAI and the BDI for je anxiety and depressiveness. The subscale on worthlessness correlated with the BAI and the BDI, indicating a low discriminant validity of this subscale.
Constructs/Subject headings: Anxiety and Anxiety disorders
Number of items: 41 Items
Language of items: German
Fragebogen zur emotionsspezifischen Selbsteinschätzung emotionaler Kompetenzen (SEK-ES)
Ebert, D.D., Christ, O., Berking, M. (2014)
The SEK-ES measures emotional regulation competencies in a way that is emotionally specific and not across emotions in general, in contrast to the methods for measuring emotional regulation available to date. The theoretical and conceptual basis of the procedure was the competence-oriented model of adaptive emotion regulation by Berking (2010) and the SEK-27 developed to measure the components contained therein. Accordingly, the SEK-ES represents an emotion-specific modification of the SEK-27. The procedure consists of a part A) Feelings and moods (50 items) and a part B) Dealing with feelings and moods (12 items per affective reaction). Reliability: The internal consistencies lie between Cronbach's alpha = .67 and .97. For the retestreliabilities (4-week interval), values between rtt = .41 and rtt = .70 were calculated. Validity: The construct validity of the procedure is indicated by expected factor charges, hypothesis-compliant differences between control and clinical samples, and expected correlations to related constructs.
Constructs/Subject headings: Self-concept, Psychosomatic Disorders
Number of items: 146 Items
Language of items: German
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire - deutsche Fassung (ERQ)
Abler, B., Kessler, H. (2011)
The ERQ is used to measure the self-assessed preference for two strategies of emotion regulation which, on the one hand, have a direct effect on the reactions in emotional situations and, on the other hand, are to have a connection with individual patterns of shaping social relationships and well-being. The ERQ goes back to a model formulated by Gross (2002) on the course and regulation of emotional reactions. The questionnaire contains 10 self-referential statements that relate to dealing with positive and negative feelings and distribute on the scales (1) reassessment/reappraisal (k = 6) and (2) suppression (k = 4). Reliability: The internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha) of the final version was Alpha = .74 and Alpha = .76. Validity: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were calculated. Main component analyses with subsequent varimax rotation resulted in two factors with an eigenvalue > 2 in all three samples; the screen plot clearly indicated a two-factor solution. The two factors could explain 50 % of the variance in the final version of the method (V3). First indications of the convergent and discriminant validity of the questionnaire result from its correlative relationships to other methods (AEQ, SCL-90).
Constructs/Subject headings: Attribution and control belief, Personality Tests for Social Behavior
Number of items: 10 Items
Language of items: German
Therapieerleben-Fragebogen für Patienten und Angehörige (TeF)
Linden, M., Lind, A., Quosh, C. (2017)
The Therapy Experience Questionnaire is designed for use in a psychotherapeutic context to record the therapy experience and can be evaluated in a resource- or stress-oriented manner. It can be used by patients and their relatives at the same time and contributes to the efficiency of a treatment. The TEF consists of 40 items on six subscales: (1) Fears and apprehensions of negative consequences of therapy, (2) Being informed about the therapy, (3) Effects of the therapy on social networks and everyday life, (4) Effects on one's own competencies, (5) Personal commitment to the therapy, (6) Distrust and feelings of being at the mercy of the therapy. Reliability: The internal consistency of the six subscales lies between Cronbach's Alpha = .78 and Alpha = .87. Validity: The validity of the six subscales is based on similarities and differences in the therapeutic experience of patients and their families.
Constructs/Subject headings: Therapy related diagnostics
Number of items: 40 Items
Language of items: German
Angsterwartungsfragebogen bei Flugreisen (AES)
Mühlberger, A., Herrmann, M.J., Pauli, P. (2010)
The German version of the AES for air travel measures a component of fear of flying, namely the strength of the expectation that symptoms of fear will occur during a flight. The scale was developed to allow the theoretical model of anxiety behaviour of Gursky and Reiss (1987) to be verified. The AES for air travel contains 10 items that are concrete and behavioural, but not scheduled. They describe various anxiety-related symptoms or feelings. Reliability: The internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) of the original version was alpha = .90 and the retestreliability was rtt = .62. The internal consistency of the German version was alpha = .81. The estimation of the 3-month Retestreliability yielded a value of rtt = .75. Validity: A factor analysis shows that the two scales represent two different factors. The AES correlated with the question of the fear of flying to r = .34 and the avoidance behaviour to r = .28. Positive correlations were also found to the Fear of Flying Scale and its subscales with the exception of the subscale Turbulences. In accordance with the hypothesis, there was only a lower correlation to the divergent hazard expectation questionnaire, but an unexpectedly high correlation to the Anxiety Sensitivity Index, which questions the independence of the two constructs.
Constructs/Subject headings: Personality Tests for Anxiety, Anxiety and Anxiety disorders
Number of items: 10 Items
Language of items: German
Fragebogen zur standardisierten Selbsteinschätzung emotionaler Kompetenzen (SEK-27)
Berking, M., Znoj, H. (2011)
The SEK-27 with 27 items measures nine competencies that are relevant for successful emotion regulation according to the competence-oriented model of adaptive emotion regulation by Berking (2010): Attention, clarity, body awareness, understanding, acceptance, resilience, self-support, confrontation and regulation. Reliability: The internal consistencies were at Cronbach's alpha = .68-.81 (subscales) and at alpha = .90 (total scale). Retest reliabilities after two weeks were rtt = .75 (full scale) and rtt = .48-.74 (subscales). Validity: The assumed factor structure was largely confirmed in the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The criterion validity could be proven by expected correlations with other measures of well-being and mental health. The comparison of the norm sample with the clinical sample was able to demonstrate the discrimination ability of SEK-27, as the two groups differed significantly. Furthermore, pre-/post measurements in the clinical sample during psychotherapeutic treatment provided evidence of the change sensitivity of SEK-27.
Constructs/Subject headings: Self-concept, Psychosomatic Disorders
Number of items: 27 Items
Language of items: German
Die klinischen Caregiver-Child Socioemotional and Relationship Rating Scales von McCall - deutsche Version (SIRS/CCSERRS)
J. M. Müller (2024)
The McCall Clinical Caregiver-Child Socioemotional and Relationship Rating Scales - German version (SIRS/CCSERRS) is an observational instrument for the global assessment of seven areas/scales (1. caregiver's interest, 2. caregiver's behaviour directed at the child, 3. caregiver's behavioural control, 4. caregiver's state of arousal (affect), 5. child's contact expectation and responsiveness, 6. child's feelings, 7. child's relationship with caregiver). Reliability: Depending on the scale, the interrater reliability was between r = .39 and r = .65. Validity: One study was able to demonstrate that the SIRS can show differences between a clinical and non-clinical sample, at least with the higher-level scales.
Constructs/Subject headings: Therapy related diagnostics
Number of items: 18 Items
Language of items: German
Globalskalen zur Einschätzung von Beziehungseinstellungen (GSEB)
Bierhoff, H.-W., Grau, I. (2012)
The Global Scales for Assessing Relationship Attitudes (GSEB) provide a broad measure of relationship experience using five dimensions with 10 items each: (1) conflict, (2) love, (3) altruism, (4) security, and (5) investment. A wide range of theoretical approaches to relationship research was included, including Bowlby's (1969) attachment theory as interpreted by Bartholomew (1990), Lee's (1976) love styles theory, and exchange theory approaches such as investment theory (Rusbult, 1983) and motivated relationship theory (Clark & Mills, 1993). Reliability: Satisfactory to good internal consistencies were found for the scales at both measurement time points and in the replication study: Cronbach's alpha ranged from .69 to .91, and stable retest coefficients in the range of rtt = .60-.82 could be demonstrated after 12 months. Validity: Factorial validity before and after item assignment to the scales was confirmed by factor analysis. The five scales predicted significant proportions of the variance in both relationship happiness and relationship stability. In terms of prognostic validity, the scales were also found to be significant predictors of happiness and stability as assessed by panel study participants after one year. The scales are largely independent of each other.
Constructs/Subject headings: Personality Tests for Social Behavior, Interaction diagnostics (Family, Couples)
Number of items: 50 Items
Language of items: German
Schmerzkatastrophisierungsskala für Kinder (SKS-D)
Kröner-Herwig, B., Maas, J. (2015)
The German-language version of the SKS serves to record pain catastrophes in children and adolescents. The SKS-D for children consists of 13 items that measure the approval of thoughts and feelings that can be experienced in pain. Reliability: The epidemiological sample showed retest correlation coefficients (1-year interval) of rtt = .53, rtt = .61 and rtt = .47. The internal consistency of the scales is at Cronbach's Alpha = .87/.86. Validity: Significant correlations between the SKS-D and various psychological variables (e.g. internalization, anxiety sensitivity), pain variables (e.g. activity restriction) and depressiveness speak for the construct validity of the procedure. Exploratory factor analysis (principal component analysis) suggests a single factor model.
Constructs/Subject headings: Psychosomatic Disorders
Number of items: 13 Items
Language of items: German
Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder Selbstbeurteilungsfragebogen (PTED Skala)
Linden, M., Baumann, K., Lieberei, B., Rotter, M. (2013)
The PTED Scale as a self-evaluation questionnaire contains 19 items for measuring the functions of bitterness reactions to negative life events. The questionnaire contains 19 individual statements. Reliability: Internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha = .93) and retest reliability (Spearman rho correlation was .71 for the total score, with a range of .53-.86 for individual items) were high. Validity: The PTED scale differed significantly between patients clinically assessed as suffering from pathological embitterment. Correlations with related instruments showed good convergent validity. Data from the non-clinical sample showed a prevalence of clinically relevant bitterness in the general population of 2.5%. The PTED scale allows a valid measurement of bitterness as an emotional response to a negative life event. Furthermore, the results show that reactive bitterness associated with a negative life event is a common phenomenon among clinical and non-clinical populations.
Constructs/Subject headings: Other Clinical Tests
Number of items: 19 Items
Language of items: German Croatian Korean Turkish Portuguese
Job-Angst-Skala (JAS)
Linden, M., Muschalla, B., Olbrich, D. (2012)
JAS aims to differentiate between different qualities of work-related anxiety. It contains 70 items, which are aggregated to 14 subscales, which in turn can be combined to five superordinate dimensions and across all dimensions to form a total value: (1) Stimulus-related fears and avoidance behaviour (k = 17), (2) Social fears and impairment cognitions (k = 19), (3) Health- and body-related fears (k = 10), (4) Insufficiency experience (k = 14) and (5) Workplace-related generalised worries (k = 10). Reliability: Cronbach's alpha was alpha = .98 (total scale), alpha = .87-.95 (superordinate scale). Comparably high values were found in the two partial samples of orthopaedic and psychosomatic patients. Retestreliability after one week was rtt =.58-.93. Validity: Several factor analyses were calculated to prove the desired scale structure. JAS mean value and STAI trait scale correlated between r = .59-.69. The criterion-related validity showed significant correlations of JAS with the previous duration of incapacity for work. Orthopaedic patients also showed lower values on almost all subscales than psychosomatic patients. Patients who had been diagnosed with workplace phobia based on a clinical interview showed higher JAS values than patients with work-related anxieties but without a diagnosis of workplace phobia.
Constructs/Subject headings: Anxiety and Anxiety disorders
Number of items: 70 Items
Language of items: German
Skala für Einstellungen, Haltungen und Bedenken zu Inklusiver Pädagogik/Skala zu Lehrer/innenwirksamkeit in Inklusiver Pädagogik (SACIE-R/TEIP)
Feyerer, E., Reibnegger, H., Hecht, P., Niedermair, C., Soukup-Altrichter, C., Plaimauer, C., Prammer-Semmler, E., Moser, I., Bruch, I. (2016)
The two-part instrument (SACIE-R with 15 items; TEIP with 18 items) consists of three subscales each (1) negative attitudes towards impairment, (2) positive attitudes towards inclusive schools, (3) reservations about the concrete implementation of inclusive teaching, (4) confidence in one's own abilities for individualized teaching, (5) confidence in one's own abilities with regard to interdisciplinary cooperation and (6) confidence in one's own abilities to deal effectively with disruptive behavior. The theory of self-efficacy of Bandura (1997) serves as a theoretical basis. Reliability: The internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha) is at Alpha = .62-.80 (SACIE-R) or at Alpha = .75-.82 (TEIP). Validity: A factor analysis revealed a four-factor structure for SACIE-R and a three-factor solution for TEIP. In addition to results such as students in the 2nd and 3rd years of study showing significantly more positive attitudes and at the same time higher concerns, while first-year students and career starters show the same level of concerns, differences in gender, age, previous education, course of study, place of study and duration of study were found, among other things.
Constructs/Subject headings: School-Related Attitudes
Number of items: 15 Items (SACIE-R), 18 Items (TEIP)
Language of items: German
Komplizierte Trauer Modul (KTM)
Maercker, A., Langner, R. (2008)
The aim of the KTM is to explore how the loss of a relative affects individuals. This should also differentiate the "complicated grief" with intrusions, avoidances and mismatches from other grief. The KTM was developed from the manuscript version of the "Complicated Grief Module" by Horowitz et al. (1992) and is based on the "Stress response model". There is a long version (interview version) with 35 items as well as a short version with 27 items. Reliability: The correlation coefficients of the individual symptom categories in the long version are alpha = .77-.87. Validity: In order to measure construct validity, the effect size was determined in the long version, i.e. to what extent each item can differentiate between high and low characteristic values. Three items with an effect size below d = .80 were then excluded. Spearman was used to measure the correlation between the items and the three symptom categories. The results suggested that although the items differ, they correlate with several symptom categories and that the symptom categories overlap. Therefore, this indicates that with all three different symptom categories the same superordinate abnormality is measured.
Constructs/Subject headings: Other Clinical Tests
Number of items: 27 Items (Fragebogen); 35 Items (Interviewform)
Language of items: German
Tunnelangstfragebogen (TAF)
Mühlberger, A., Pauli, P. (2010)
The TAF was developed to assess the severity and intensity of tunnel anxiety and to evaluate therapies for managing tunnel anxiety. The TAF comprises the two scales (1) Fear when driving in a tunnel as a driver and (2) Fear as a co-driver with 11 items each. Reliability: The internal consistency was Cronbach's alpha = .85-.90. For a 10-item version it was alpha = .94 (fear as driver) or alpha = .95 (fear as co-driver) and the retest reliability (after 3 months) was rtt = .71 or rtt = .80. Validity: "Patients with tunnel anxiety" vs. "Control persons" differed significantly in the extent of self-reported avoidance of tunneling, the values on different fear scales (Fear and General Symptoms Questionnaire; subscales anxiety, phobic fear from SCL-90-R) and the Global Severity Index. In addition, persons classified as tunnel anxious showed higher subjective fear and more pronounced psychophysiological fear reactions when driving through a tunnel in a virtual driving environment. The scale "Fear as a passenger" also showed a high correlation of r = .71 with the subscale "Overcrowded and closed rooms" from the FGSQ.
Constructs/Subject headings: Personality Tests for Anxiety, Anxiety and Anxiety disorders
Number of items: 22 Items
Language of items: German
Self-Monitoring-Skala (SMS/D)
Graf, A. (2009)
The Self-Monitoring Scale consists of 25 items and measures the ability to adjust and adapt one's own behavior to external circumstances and situations. This includes sensitivity to the expressive behavior and appearance of other people and the ability to use this information to control one's own self-presentation. In the sense of a competent and flexible appearance, this ability has a high professional relevance. Self-monitoring is a construct that belongs to the family of self-theories and is based on the assumption that people observe their behaviour and adapt it to situational conditions. Reliability: An internal consistency (Kuder-Richardson formula 20) of rtt = .69 resulted for the 25-item version and one of rtt = .71 for the revised 18-item version. Validity: To validate the translated Self-Monitoring Scale, the correlations of the scale with the individual scales of the German version of the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ) were checked and the results of the SMS/D were compared with those of the SMS. As expected on the basis of the results of other studies, only low correlations of the SMS/D in the 25-item version with the scales of the ICQ and slightly higher correlations in the 18-item version were found
Constructs/Subject headings: Personality Tests for Social Behavior, Self-concept
Number of items: 25 Items; 18 Items (Kurzversion)
Language of items: German
Affekt-Regulation und Affekt-Wahrnehmung Q-Sort Test (AREQ)
Westen, D., Shedler, J., Löffler-Stastka, H. (2009)
The aim of the test instrument is to diagnose the prevailing affect experience and the preferred affect regulation mechanisms of the patient. In 1994, Westen developed his "Model of Affect Regulation", according to which affects play a central role in personality. A maximum of 24 hours before the rating, an approximately 60-80-minute narrative clinical interview is conducted. The basic questions are given, but can be adapted, shortened or extended by the interviewer for the individual person and situation. The interview is divided into 12 subject areas, each with a main question and a different number of supplementary questions. The 12 subject areas are, for example, information on: (1) oneself as a person, (2) complaints and psychiatric medical history, (3) childhood, or (4) relationship with the mother with an event. Reliability: Not available. Validity: High correlations are reported on the scales "reality-focused answers" and "socializes negative affect" with external criteria such as the number of admissions in psychiatric hospitals and suicide attempts, the GAF score and the functional level of personality organization according to Kernberg.
Constructs/Subject headings: Other Clinical Tests
Number of items: 98 Items
Language of items: German
Habituelle subjektive Wohlbefindensskala (HSWBS)
Dalbert, C. (2002)
The HSWBS measures the trait part of subjective well-being using the scale general life satisfaction (cognitive dimension) as well as the scale mood level (emotional dimension) and consists of 13 items. Reliability: Retestreliability was rtt = .81-.87 (3-month interval), in another sample it was rtt = .70-.74. Cronbach's alpha was alpha = .82-.88. Validity: The factorial validity was examined several times and in different ways. Structural equation models prove the assumption that a distinction is made between current and habitual well-being and only within these between emotional and cognitive components. The correlation between mood level and life satisfaction (trait-trait correlation: r = .67) was closer than the correlations between the two habitual and the three current mood measures (trait-state correlations: r = .28/.42). Both HSBWS scales correlated slightly but significantly with the tendency towards socially desirable response behaviour. With the scale life satisfaction of the FPI-R correlated mood level to r = .73 and general life satisfaction to r = .80; with the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1972) correlated mood level to r = .56 and general life satisfaction to r = .62. With the General Depression Scale of Hautzinger and Bailer (1993) correlated mood level to r = -.51 and general life satisfaction to r = -.48 in the overall sample of persons under stress, also related to the last week.
Constructs/Subject headings: Psychosomatic Disorders, Other Personality Tests
Number of items: 13 Items
Language of items: German
Stress- und Coping-Inventar (2., überarbeitete und neunormierte Version) (SCI)
Satow, L. (2024)
The revision of the Stress and Coping Inventory (SCI) uses seven scales and a total of 45 items to measure psychological stress, stress symptoms and stress management strategies. Reliability: The internal consistency lies between Cronbach's alpha = .75 and alpha = .87. Validity: The factorial validity was confirmed by factor analysis. The scale intercorrelation was examined. Similar scales show high correlation and dissimilar negative correlations (e.g. stress load/positive thinking: r = -.37). Special groups such as job seekers, alcohol and addiction abusers (e.g. drugs or gambling) show higher stress levels. Stressed students also exhibited maladaptive coping strategies more frequently.
Constructs/Subject headings: Well-being and Resilience, Therapy related diagnostics
Number of items: 45 Items
Language of items: German English French Spanish Italian
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