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- Provides comprehensive coverage of self-report assessment instruments used in global behavioral health research
- Examines conceptual foundations, development, and psychometric properties of behavioral health rating scales
- Assists users in determining the appropriateness of the scale for diverse cultural and linguistic contexts
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This handbook provides comprehensive coverage of self-report assessment instruments used in behavioral health research internationally. It presents different language versions, together with evidence for psychometric properties and the potential to compare scores across countries and languages. The book offers background on language issues, terminology, cross-cultural considerations during questionnaire development, translation, and indigenous perspectives. In addition, it reviews relevant statistical techniques, including multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory and Rasch analysis, generalizability theory, and network analysis.
The handbook examines conceptual foundations, development, and psychometric properties of rating scales in determining the appropriateness of the scale for diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. It presents validated language versions of each scale to ensure convenience and accuracy in identifying relevant scales for projects. The book groups scales by areas of application ranging from addictions and affective disorders to quality of life, mindfulness, and general health contexts. It presents a range of self-report assessment tools used in behavioral health research for which more than one language version is available to assist in the selection of a relevant scale in a specific language as well as to identify gaps for future research and guide development of new language versions to capture insufficiently studied populations.
The handbook examines conceptual foundations, development, and psychometric properties of rating scales in determining the appropriateness of the scale for diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. It presents validated language versions of each scale to ensure convenience and accuracy in identifying relevant scales for projects. The book groups scales by areas of application ranging from addictions and affective disorders to quality of life, mindfulness, and general health contexts. It presents a range of self-report assessment tools used in behavioral health research for which more than one language version is available to assist in the selection of a relevant scale in a specific language as well as to identify gaps for future research and guide development of new language versions to capture insufficiently studied populations.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Nature and theoretical foundations of assessment.
- Language and terminology in behavioral health assessment.
- Cross-cultural validation of self-report scales.
- Translation of self-report inventories.
- Indigenous perspectives on behavioral health.
- Statistical techniques used in scale developments and validation.
- Addictions.
- Affective disorders.
- Coping.
- Mindfulness.
- Positive psychology constructs.
- Quality of life, well-being, happiness, and life satisfaction.
- Spirituality and connectedness.
The International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment is an essential reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other mental health providers in clinical psychology, behavioral medicine, social work, developmental psychology, psychiatry, public health, complementary and alternative medicine, occupational therapy, and all interrelated disciplines.
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Keywords
- Affective disorders, behavioral health assessment
- Behavioral health, assessment, ratings scales
- Coping, behavioral health assessment
- COVID-19, behavioral health assessment
- Cross-cultural issues, behavioral health
- Depression, anxiety, stress, behavioral health assessment
- Factor analysis, behavioral health assessment
- Game addiction, internet addiction, behavioral health
- Generalizability theory, behavioral health assessment
- Indigenous perspectives, behavioral health
- Mindful parenting, behavioral health assessment
- Mindfulness, compassion, behavioral health assessment
- Network analysis, behavioral health assessment
- Oncology, behavioral health assessment
- Positive psychology, gratitude, behavioral health
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), behavioral health
- Quality of life, well-being, behavioral health assessment
- Rasch model, behavioral health assessment
- Spirituality, connectedness, behavioral health assessment
- Substance abuse, alcohol, drugs, behavioral health
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Christian U. Krägeloh, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. His current research interests are outcome measurement in health and mental health, language planning and terminology, mindfulness, and investigating psychosocial factors in social robotics. He is a founding member of the New Zealand World Health Organisation Quality of Life Group and the Psychosocial Aspects in Robotics (PAIR) Lab. He is an author on more than 110 articles in international journals, lead author of a mindfulness research book, co-editor of a major reference work on assessment in mindfulness research, and an author and editor of several other books on research methods and well-being. Dr. Krägeloh is an Associate Editor of the journal Mindfulness.
Mohsen Alyami, Ph.D. in Health Psychology from the Department of Psychological Medicine, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Alyami’s research focuses on adherence to medication and associated psychological factors such as illness perceptions and beliefs about medicine. Dr. Alyami has special interest in behavioural medicine, illness visualisations, mental health apps, digital stress, and cross-cultural research. He is an author on more than 23 articles in international journals, 2 book chapters, and a committed reviewer for several international journals.
Oleg N. Medvedev, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Associate Editor of the journal Mindfulness. He teaches advanced research methods courses and is actively involved in mindfulness and health-related research covering mindfulness-based interventions, well-being, health-related quality of life, affective disorders and healthy mental aging. A substantial amount of Dr. Medvedev’s work focuses on application of advanced statistical and psychometric methods, such as Generalizability Theory, Rasch model and Network analysis to enhance assessment and research methodology in mindfulness and health research. He developed a novel method to distinguish between dynamic and enduring aspects in psychological assessment using Generalizability Theory. Dr. Medvedev is an author on more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 book chapters, and co-author of the book Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research: Characteristics, Approaches, and Developments (Taylor & Francis, 2019).
Mohsen Alyami, Ph.D. in Health Psychology from the Department of Psychological Medicine, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Alyami’s research focuses on adherence to medication and associated psychological factors such as illness perceptions and beliefs about medicine. Dr. Alyami has special interest in behavioural medicine, illness visualisations, mental health apps, digital stress, and cross-cultural research. He is an author on more than 23 articles in international journals, 2 book chapters, and a committed reviewer for several international journals.
Oleg N. Medvedev, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Associate Editor of the journal Mindfulness. He teaches advanced research methods courses and is actively involved in mindfulness and health-related research covering mindfulness-based interventions, well-being, health-related quality of life, affective disorders and healthy mental aging. A substantial amount of Dr. Medvedev’s work focuses on application of advanced statistical and psychometric methods, such as Generalizability Theory, Rasch model and Network analysis to enhance assessment and research methodology in mindfulness and health research. He developed a novel method to distinguish between dynamic and enduring aspects in psychological assessment using Generalizability Theory. Dr. Medvedev is an author on more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 book chapters, and co-author of the book Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research: Characteristics, Approaches, and Developments (Taylor & Francis, 2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment
Editors: Christian U. Krägeloh, Mohsen Alyami, Oleg N. Medvedev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89738-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and Psychology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89738-3Due: 23 May 2024
Number of Pages: L, 3000
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry, Public Health