Session Overview
 
Date: Thursday, 23/Jul/2015
9:45am
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11:15am
PA3: Clinical Assessment 1: Children and Adolescents
Location: KOL-G-221 (Ⅴ)
Chair: Nina Krüger
 

The Anxiety Screening for Kids (ASK): A new self-report instrument to measure trait-anxiety in primary school aged children

Nina Krüger

University of Hamburg, Germany


Validity of the TAS-20 and interrelations between alexithymia and psychosocial ill-being among Finnish adolescents

Eero Laakkonen, Niina Johanna Junttila, Päivi Niemi

University of Turku, Finland


Asian Adolescents Depression Scale (AADS): Urdu translation and analysis of psychometric properties

Muhammad Rizwan1,2, Gisela Michel1, Sumbleen Khan2, Mehwish Mursaleen2, Saira Qurashi2

1: University of Luzern, Switzerland; 2: University of Karachi, Pakistan


Convergent and divergent validity of the Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales – 2nd edition and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

Sofia Major, Maria João Seabra-Santos

University of Coimbra, Portugal

11:45am
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1:15pm
PA7: Meaning in Life and Well-Being
Location: KOL-G-221 (Ⅴ)
Chair: Shulamith Kreitler
 

The Children's Quality of Life Questionnaire

Shulamith Kreitler1,2, Michal M. Kreitler2, Yasmin Alkalay2

1: Sheba Medical Center Tel Hashomer, Israel; 2: Tel-Aviv University, Israel


The Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Psychometric properties of the Italian version

Luca Negri, Antonella Delle Fave

University of Milano, Italy


Rasch analysis of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire: Findings from three countries

Lusilda Schutte1, Marie P. Wissing1, Suria M. Ellis1, Paul E. Jose2, Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick3

1: North-West University, South Africa; 2: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; 3: University of Melbourne, Australia


Short scales for the assessment of accomplishment and positive relationships: Initial validation and correlative and experimental evidence for their association with well-being

Fabian Gander, René T. Proyer, Willibald Ruch

University of Zurich, Switzerland


Measuring well-being at school: Results of an initial investigation with daily diaries

Lisa Wagner, Willibald Ruch

University of Zurich, Switzerland

4:30pm
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6:00pm
PA10: Cross-Cultural Assessment and Adaptation
Location: KOL-G-221 (Ⅴ)
Chair: Isabel Benítez Baena
 

The assessment of bias between groups from different cultures speaking the same language

Isabel Benítez Baena1,2, José-Luis Padilla García1, Fons van de Vijver2,3,4

1: University of Granada, Spain; 2: Tilburg University, The Netherlands; 3: University of Queensland, Australia; 4: North-West University, South Africa


Exploring the relationship between the Greek taxonomic study and the HEXACO personality structure in a Greek population sample

Christoforos Thomadakis1, Ioannis Tsaousis2

1: Hellenic National Defence General Staff, Greece,; 2: University of Crete, Greece


Psychological distress among low-income U.S.- and foreign-born women of Mexican descent: Impact of acculturation

Venera Bekteshi1, Qingwen XU2, Thanh Tran3

1: University of Illinois, USA; 2: Tulane University, USA; 3: Boston College, USA


 
Date: Friday, 24/Jul/2015
9:45am
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11:15am
PA13: Personality
Location: KOL-G-221 (Ⅴ)
Chair: Eva Schürch
 

How to measure narcissism – An ongoing discussion

Eva Schürch, Carolyn C. Morf

University of Bern, Switzerland


Social Responsibility Scale (SRS-37): A psychodiagnostic measurement tool tested for reliability, validity, and its standardisation

Olena Kovalchuk1,2, David N. Benson3

1: Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University, Ukraine; 2: National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI", Ukraine; 3: University of Indiana, USA


Non-verbal personality assessment with 10 cartoon-like portrayals

John Magnus Roos1,2,4, Petri Kajonius3,2,4

1: Veryday, Sweden; 2: University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3: University College West, Sweden; 4: University College of Skovde, Sweden


Fifty scales of grey? - A common analysis of dominance self-report scales

Carolin Palmer

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany

11:45am
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1:15pm
PA17: Assessment Center and Coaching
Location: KOL-G-221 (Ⅴ)
Chair: Nigel George Evans
 

Assessment in coaching: Trait questionnaires offering holistic approaches

Nigel George Evans

NEC, UK


Putting theory into practice – The ongoing validation of the Swiss Armed Forces’ assessment centers

Nadine Eggimann, Hubert Annen, Peter Stöckli

Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland


The presentation of the draft “National Assessment Center Guideline for Turkey”

Mehmet Sürmeli

National Study Group on Assessment Center Methods, Turkey


Assessment Centres - A large bandwidth of practice

Nigel George Evans

NEC, UK

4:30pm
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6:00pm
PA22: Subjective Well-Being
Location: KOL-G-221 (Ⅴ)
Chair: Marco Weber
 

Assessment of young people’s satisfaction in five different life domains: Adaptation and initial validation of the German version of the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale

Marco Weber

University of Kassel, Germany


Rasch analysis of the Satisfaction with Life Scale: Findings from South Africa and Italy

Lusilda Schutte1, Luca Negri2, Antonella Delle Fave2, Marie P. Wissing1

1: North-West University, South Africa; 2: University of Milano, Italy


The incremental validity of low-arousal affect in predicting well-being

Ingrid Brdar1, Antonella Delle Fave2, Marie Wissing3

1: University of Rijeka, Croatia; 2: Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; 3: North-West University, South Africa


Assessing happiness with the Authentic Happiness Inventory: Evaluation of its psychometric properties, initial validation, and its use in intervention studies

Sara Wellenzohn, René Proyer, Fabian Gander, Willibald Ruch

University of Zurich, Switzerland


 
Date: Saturday, 25/Jul/2015
10:15am
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11:45am
PA26: Clinical Assessment 5
Location: KOL-G-221 (Ⅴ)
Chair: Sofia Major
 

Do we have a useful tool to assess preschoolers’ social skills and problem behaviors?

Sofia Major, Maria João Seabra-Santos

University of Coimbra, Portugal


The narrativity of utterances about close interpersonal relationships and level of personality organisation assessment

Emilia Soroko

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland


Psychodynamic diagnostics – Validation research based on computer modelling of handwriting psychology

Marie Anne Nauer1, Yury Chernov2

1: ASP/FSP/SBAP/SGG, Switzerland; 2: SGG, Switzerland


Management of menace of drug abuse among students by understanding their personality and family dynamics: A longitudinal study

Anu Singh Lather, Mannat Singh Lather

GGS Indraprastha University, India