In contemporary philosophy of psychiatry, one increasingly hears the claim that if mental disorders turn out to be dimensional, the very idea of diagnostic validity may no longer be very important.
The Berlin Intelligence Structure Model is a hierarchical and faceted model which is originally based on an almost representative sample of tasks found in the literature. Therefore, the Berlin ...
Objectives The Disease Activity index for Psoriatic Arthritis (DAPSA) was developed to assess disease activity in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). A modified version, DAPSA28, uses 28 joints ...
In research, whether in psychology, education, or marketing, we often want to measure things that aren’t easily quantifiable. Think about concepts like happiness, intelligence, or brand loyalty. These ...
Have you ever taken a personality quiz and wondered if it truly captured who you are? Or have you read a news article about a study and questioned the measurements used? These are situations where ...
ABSTRACT: This study examines the impact of trade unions on employees’ productivity within South Sudan’s public sector, focusing on Juba Municipality. The study adopted a quantitative research ...
Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents’ quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal ...
In a recent article Fahrenfort and colleagues demonstrate that auditory and monetary punishment change the criteria that participants use to rate the clarity of perception (Fahrenfort et al., 2025).
Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. We thank Jiang and colleagues 1 for their thoughtful commentary on our research article 2 and appreciate ...
Centro Centroamericano de Población y Escuela de Estadística, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Background: It is known that the effects of stress on the body harm health and mortality ...
Zehra Cataltepe is the CEO of TAZI.AI, an adaptive, explainable AI and GenAI platform for business users. She has 100+ AI papers & patents. In many industries, including banking, insurance and ...