Instructors' Ratings of Delinquents after Outward Bound Survival Training and Their Subsequent Recidivism

1975 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Baer ◽  
Peter J. Jacobs ◽  
Frances E. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Outward Bound ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Prediction Of Recidivism ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Long Term Prediction ◽  
Successful Students

After participating in an Outward Bound survival training course, 60 male delinquents were evaluated by patrol leaders. Successful students were awarded a certificate and all Ss were then paroled. A significant association was found between nonrecidivism within a 5-yr. period and the awarding of a certificate. Principal components analysis of a 40-item rating scale completed by the patrol leaders yielded six factors. Significant correlations were found between the factor scores of Maturity, Leadership, and Effort, with nonrecidivism. Results suggest that a rating based on Outward Bound performance can provide a long-term prediction of recidivism.

Factor Structure of the Depression-Proneness Rating Scale

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 863-866
Author(s):  
Sung-Mook Hong
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Varimax Rotation ◽  
Cognitive Components ◽  
Depression Proneness ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Depression Scales

The Zemore Depression-Proneness Rating Scale was administered to 208 university students. A principal components analysis with varimax rotation identified three factors representing Negative Self-attitude, Performance Difficulty, and Lack of Appetite. Some similarity between the present factors and those of the Beck Depression Inventory was discussed. Because the scale overemphasizes cognitive components, attention to items on the somatic aspects of depression was suggested. However, it should be noted that depression-proneness appears to be the feature of Zemore's scale that sets it apart from other depression scales.

Children's Fears: A Survey of Italian Children Ages 6 to 10 Years

2009 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 971-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Salcuni ◽  
Daniela di Riso ◽  
Claudia Mazzeschi ◽  
Adriana Lis
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Mainstream Classrooms ◽  
Average Factor ◽  
Fear Survey Schedule ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Italian Children

The aim of this study was to explore children's fears. The article reports on average factor scores of a study carried out in Italy using the Fear Survey Schedule for Children (here, the “Fear Survey”; Ollendick, 1983) with normal 6- to 10-yr.-old children (931 girls, 914 boys). Participants were 1,845 children, recruited in mainstream classrooms. Respondents were asked to complete the schedule indicating their fears and the intensity of such fears. A principal components analysis yielded a four-factor structure (1: Death and Danger, 2: Injury and Animals, 3: Failure and Criticism, 4: Fear of the Unknown). Average factor scores showed significant differences across the factors and according to sex and age. Girls reported significantly higher fearfulness than boys. Age differences were found on some factors.

scholarly journals Validity and Reliability of the Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile in Older Adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 00606-2020
Author(s):  
Eralda Hegendörfer ◽  
Alexander Doukhopelnikoff ◽  
Jean-Marie Degryse
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Components Analysis

Breathlessness is a common and distressing symptom in older adults and an independent predictor of adverse outcomes. Yet, its multidimensional assessment has not been validated in older adults. We apply and validate the Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile (MDP) in a sample of adults 75 years and older in Belgium.Breathlessness was rated with the MDP, modified Borg dyspnoea scale, numerical rating scale for intensity and unpleasantness both before and after exertion (the short battery of physical performance tests (SPPB)), as well as with the Medical Research Council dyspnoea scale. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) assessed the affective status. Factor structure was analysed with exploratory principal components analysis, internal consistency with Cronbach's alpha and concurrent validity with Spearman's correlation coefficients with other breathlessness scales, HADS and SPPB scores.In 96 participants (mean age: 85 years; 34% men) who rated breathlessness at both assessment points, exploratory principal components analysis identified two components: immediate perception (IP) and emotional reaction (ER) explaining most of MDP item variance (65.37% before and 71.32% after exertion). Internal consistency was moderate to high for MDP-IP (Cronbach's alpha=0.86 before and 0.89 after exertion) and MDP-ER (Cronbach's alpha= 0.89 before and 0.91 after exertion). The correlation patterns of MDP-IP and MDP-ER with other tests confirmed concurrent validity.The domain structure, reliability and concurrent validity of MDP for breathlessness before and after exertion were confirmed in a sample of adults 75 years and older, supporting its use and further research for the multidimensional profiling of breathlessness in older adults.

“Endogenous” and “Neurotic” Syndromes of Depression: A 5-to 7-Year Follow-up of 104 Cases

1969 ◽  
Vol 115 (521) ◽  
pp. 389-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W. K. Kay ◽  
R. F. Garside ◽  
J. R. Roy ◽  
Pamela Beamish
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Index Admission ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
First Admission

In a previous paper (Kay et al., 1969) the mode of selection and composition of a sample of 104 depressed patients was described. The present article concerns the follow up of this sample, 5–7 years after the index admission (which was always a first admission). The aims were: (i) To examine and compare outcome in three groups of patients, “endogenous”, “neurotic”, and “undifferentiated”, (ii) The second aim was to study the power of various individual features to predict the course and outcome of the illness. The patients' groups were defined by the factor scores on a first (bipolar) factor which was identifiable in many though not all respects with the “endogenous-neurotic” factor previously described by Kiloh and Garside (1963) and by Carney, Roth and Garside (1965). A full account of the symptoms defining the factor, which was obtained by principal components analysis, and of the method of allocating patients to the diagnostic groupings, was given in the previous paper.

Delirium in elderly people: a study of a psychiatric liaison service in north India

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep Grover ◽  
Natasha Kate ◽  
Munish Agarwal ◽  
Surendra Kumar Mattoo ◽  
Ajit Avasthi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Principal Components Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
North India ◽  
Physical Disorder ◽  
Inpatient Stay ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Three Factor

ABSTRACTBackground: Very few studies from India have studied the phenomenology of delirium. The aim of the present study was to study the phenomenology as measured using the Delirium Rating Scale-Revised-98 (DRS-R98), the associated etiologies and the outcome of delirium among the elderly participants seen by the consultation-liaison psychiatric service in India. In addition, an attempt was made to study the factor structure of symptoms using principal components analysis.Methods: The case notes of 109 elderly patients referred to psychiatry liaison services were reviewed.Results: The mean age of the sample was 73.35 years (SD: 7.44; range 65–95 years) and two-thirds of the sample had hospital emergent delirium. The mean DRS-R98 severity score was 18.77 and the DRS-R98 total score was 24.81. In 15 patients the DRS-R98 scores were in the subsyndromal range. Among the various symptoms present, most patients had sleep-wake cycle disturbance, disturbance in orientation, attention and short-term memory impairments, fluctuation of symptoms, temporal onset of symptoms and a physical disorder. Principal components analysis identified three factors which explained 43.5% of variance of symptomatology and it yielded a three-factor structure. Endocrine/metabolic disturbances were the commonest associated etiological category with delirium. The mean hospital stay after being referred to psychiatry referral services was 8.89 days, after which delirium improved in 58.7% of cases. The mortality rate during the inpatient stay was 16.5%.Conclusions: Results suggest that the symptoms of delirium as assessed by DRS-R98 separate out into a three-factor structure. Delirium is commonly associated with metabolic endocrine disturbances and about one-sixth of the patients die during the short inpatient stay.

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