َali nikbakht; hamid nashtdoost
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According to various cognitive models of emotional disorders, anxious and depressed individuals always give priority to negative information rather than positive and neutral ones. Moreover, tests and treatments designed to modify interpretation bias take advantage of limited tools developed in this respect. ...
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According to various cognitive models of emotional disorders, anxious and depressed individuals always give priority to negative information rather than positive and neutral ones. Moreover, tests and treatments designed to modify interpretation bias take advantage of limited tools developed in this respect. The Ambiguous Scenarios Test (AST) is also a pragmatic one to measure interpretation bias in clinical situations. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Ambiguous Scenarios Test (AST) in Iranian society and formulate it for application in research on interpretation bias relevant to depression. To this end, a total number of 240 university students (61 boys and 179 girls) enrolled at the University of Hormozgan were selected using simple random sampling method. The psychometric properties of the test were similarly examined using exploratory factor analysis, ROC curve, test-retest method with two-week interval, calculation of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, correlation with mood states, diagnosis of people with high and low moods, and correlation with scores of the Dysfunctional Thoughts Scale. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the entire test and the correlation coefficient for the test-retest method with two-week interval were 0.78 and 0.72; respectively. The correlation between the given test and the Dysfunctional Thoughts Scale was equal to -0.57 and the correlation coefficient between group membership and the Ambiguous Scenarios Test (AST) was 0.38. Overall, the results showed that the given test was endowed with proper internal consistency, validity, and reliability and it could also distinguish individuals with negative interpretation bias from those with positive one.
Amir Ghasemi Navab
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Background: transition to adolescence is accompanied with rapid changes, unexpected and new cognitive, social, emotional and psychological experiences that makes challenges for adolescents and are considered as underlying factors of stress. Aim: The aim of present study was examining the psychometric ...
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Background: transition to adolescence is accompanied with rapid changes, unexpected and new cognitive, social, emotional and psychological experiences that makes challenges for adolescents and are considered as underlying factors of stress. Aim: The aim of present study was examining the psychometric properties of the Iranian version of Adolescent Stress Questionnaire (ASQ) in high school students of both genders. Method: The study sample consisted of high school students in Hamadan city in 2015 school year. 280 students were selected based on multi-stage random sampling. To study psychometric characteristics of the questionnaire, Adolescent Stress Questionnaire was translated with double-translation technique and finally, to evaluate the psychometric properties of the questionnaire, it was administered along with depression, anxiety, stress scale (DASS) and state anxiety Inventory (SAI) of Spielberg. Collected data was analyzed and reliability and validity indicators and confirmatory factor analysis were calculated. Results: Analysis of the collected data showed that the questionnaire has the reliability of 0.75 to 0.85 alpha coefficients in ten subscales, In addition, the concurrent validity of the questionnaire with subscales of depression anxiety, stress scale and trait anxiety questionnaire was equal to 0.34, 0.35, 0.82 and 0.15 respectively which in the p
gholamreza rajabi; sona karju kasmai
Volume 3, Issue 10 , January 2013, , Pages 139-158
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Background: the beck depression inventory second edition is a revision of the depression questionnaire and a widely used self report measure of depressive symptoms in clinical and non clinical populations. Objective: the purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Persian ...
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Background: the beck depression inventory second edition is a revision of the depression questionnaire and a widely used self report measure of depressive symptoms in clinical and non clinical populations. Objective: the purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Persian version of the beck depression inventory second edition among students of shahid chamran university and ahvaz university of medical sciences. Methods: using random multi stage sampling method 468 subjects were selected among the studerts of the mentioned universities in the educational year 89-90. Results: the results of the factor analysis and varimax rotation were indicative of the two factors: cognitive affective and negative attitude somatic symptoms.
farzaneh Roaei; ali delavar; noreali farokhi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , July 2011, , Pages 1-25
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The current paper reviews the concept of meta analysis of Anxiety & Depression researches in 1363-1385 at University of Allameh Tabatabaei university , faculty of psychology and education science . The relevant controls were convenient for the present research in order to study the aspect of ...
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The current paper reviews the concept of meta analysis of Anxiety & Depression researches in 1363-1385 at University of Allameh Tabatabaei university , faculty of psychology and education science . The relevant controls were convenient for the present research in order to study the aspect of Anxiety & Depression, therefore a number of 41 cases from 55 on anxiety including 36 case out of 59 on depression were optimized for meta analysis . Research methodology is structured due to revision in connection with descriptive statistics device ,meanwhile it is meta analysis in terms of inferential statistics , therefore software of CMA (Comprehensive Meta Analysis ) & SPSS used to analyze collected data . The whole Research analyzed in connection with significant of case reliability. Statistical method t (dependent & independent) is significant in scope of cause of effect in anxiety and way of anxiety therapy methods including cause and effect on depression for depression therapy methods .The sampling is cluster form , while sampling method for accessibility in Research linked to causes and anxiety factors , though the anxiety therapy method and accessible sampling method plus random sampling method are in significant range. The methods of randomly and cluster samplings in the field of cause and effect are depression components furthermore randomly sampling method in depression therapy method are significant too. The Research methodology used in cause , comparative and correlation area over cause and effect of anxiety ,while anxiety therapy methods ,the case of experimental & semi experimental methods are in significant range too. The results arisen by this paper demonstrate that Research carried out in the fields of anxiety and depression deserve more revision and modification because novel Researches are critical for application specifically in both fields concerned.
