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On the complexity of quantifying construct validityGregory T Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Assess 17:413-4. 2005..Nonetheless, the laudable attempt by these distinguished authors to quantify construct validity reminds us of the complexity of the construct validation process...- On construct validity: issues of method and measurementGregory T Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Assess 17:396-408. 2005..Ongoing efforts to improve the construct validity process reflect the legacy of L. J. Cronbach and P. E. Meehl... - Reactive personality-environment transactions and adult developmental trajectoriesGregory T Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Dev Psychol 42:877-87. 2006..Differential learning in a task that approximated skill acquisition for a developmental transition implies that personality may help shape individual developmental trajectories in the adult years... - On the validity and utility of discriminating among impulsivity-like traitsGregory T Smith
University of Kentucky, KY 40506 0044, USA
Assessment 14:155-70. 2007..Sensation seeking appeared to relate to the frequency of engaging in risky behaviors, and urgency appeared to relate to problem levels of involvement in those behaviors... - Incremental validity principles in test constructionGregory T Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Assess 15:467-77. 2003..Implementation of these suggestions is likely to provide theoretical clarification and improved prediction... - Thinness and eating expectancies predict subsequent binge-eating and purging behavior among adolescent girlsGregory T Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:188-97. 2007..The onset of most behaviors can be understood in terms of learned expectancies for reinforcement from these behaviors. The same model can be applied to the risk for eating disorders... - Integration of impulsivity and positive mood to predict risky behavior: development and validation of a measure of positive urgencyMelissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Assess 19:107-18. 2007..In Study 3, they confirmed the hypothesis that positive urgency differentiated alcoholics from both eating-disordered and control individuals... 
Positive urgency predicts illegal drug use and risky sexual behaviorTamika C B Zapolski
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 23:348-54. 2009..The authors discuss the theoretical and practical implications of this finding...- Coping with distress by eating or drinking: role of trait urgency and expectanciesSarah Fischer
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 18:269-74. 2004..Eating expectancies were associated with binge eating, but not with alcohol use or problems. Urgency's effect on binge eating was moderated by expectancies, but its effect on alcohol use and problem drinking was not... - On the value of homogeneous constructs for construct validation, theory testing, and the description of psychopathologyGregory T Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Assess 21:272-84. 2009..In contrast, the use of composite diagnoses can retard scientific progress and hamper clinicians' efforts to understand and treat dysfunction... - Experimental effect of positive urgency on negative outcomes from risk taking and on increased alcohol consumptionMelissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:367-75. 2010..Positive urgency's role was above and beyond previously identified risk factors; these findings, combined with prior cross-sectional and longitudinal field studies, provide support for the role of positive urgency in rash action... - Clarifying the construct of perfectionismAgnes M Stairs
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Assessment 19:146-66. 2012..The nine scales were internally consistent and stable across time, and they were differentially associated with relevant measures of personality in theoretically meaningful ways... - A risk model for preadolescent disordered eatingJessica L Combs
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Int J Eat Disord 44:596-604. 2011.... 
Manipulation of thinness and restricting expectancies: further evidence for a causal role of thinness and restricting expectancies in the etiology of eating disordersAgnes M Annus
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40503, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 22:278-87. 2008..These results provide further support for the role of expectancies in the etiology of eating-disordered behaviors...- Longitudinal validation of the acquired preparedness model of drinking riskRegan Fried Settles
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:198-208. 2010.... - Associations among family-of-origin food-related experiences, expectancies, and disordered eatingAgnes M Annus
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Int J Eat Disord 40:179-86. 2007..The study reported here integrates research on family-of-origin learning experiences and adult eating/thinness expectancies in the study of risk for eating disordered behavior... - Learning experiences in dance class predict adult eating disturbanceAgnes Annus
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40508, USA
Eur Eat Disord Rev 17:50-60. 2009..Learning experiences about thinness in dance class seem more important than time spent in dance class when examining the relationship between dance study and eating disorders... - The role of negative urgency and expectancies in problem drinking and disordered eating: testing a model of comorbidity in pathological and at-risk samplesSarah Fischer
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 26:112-23. 2012.... - The role of personality dispositions to risky behavior in predicting first-year college drinkingMelissa A Cyders
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Addiction 104:193-202. 2009..Recent advances in personality research that have delineated multiple, separate dispositions to engage in risky behaviors may help to clarify the personality contribution to risk for this problem... - The acquired preparedness risk model applied to smoking in 5th grade childrenJessica L Combs
115 Kastle Hall, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, KY 40506, United States
Addict Behav 37:331-4. 2012..This model should be investigated longitudinally... - Comparability of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 between women and menNichea S Spillane
University of Kentucky, USA
Assessment 11:85-93. 2004..However the EDI-2 scales were generally less reliable for men, leading to slightly lower Pearson-based estimates of correlations among the measures for men... - Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and chronic orofacial pain: an empirical examination of the mutual maintenance modelJessica L Burris
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
J Orofac Pain 23:243-52. 2009.... - The acquired preparedness model of risk for bulimic symptom developmentJessica L Combs
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:475-86. 2010..This application of a basic science theory to eating disorder risk appears fruitful, and the findings suggest the importance of early interventions that address both disposition and learning... - Negative urgency: a personality predictor of externalizing behavior characterized by neuroticism, low conscientiousness, and disagreeablenessRegan E Settles
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:160-72. 2012..Low Conscientiousness did not add to prediction from negative urgency, except in a few cases. The tendency toward affect-driven rash action may underlie many externalizing behaviors... - A risk model for disordered eating in late elementary school boysCarolyn M Pearson
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:696-704. 2010..To this end, it appears that characteristics of boys, including their pubertal status, personalities, and psychosocial learning, help identify boys at risk... - Risk factors for elementary school drinking: pubertal status, personality, and alcohol expectancies concurrently predict fifth grade alcohol consumptionRachel L Gunn
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 24:617-27. 2010..Drinker status among fifth graders is not just a function of context and factors external to children: it is predictable from a combination of pubertal status, personality characteristics, and learned alcohol expectancies... - Longitudinal validation of the urgency traits over the first year of collegeMelissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, School of Science, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN 46202 3275, USA
J Pers Assess 92:63-9. 2010..These results provide further evidence for the validity of the theory of emotion-based rash action and for the measures of positive and negative urgency... - Construct validity of the five facet mindfulness questionnaire in meditating and nonmeditating samplesRuth A Baer
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Assessment 15:329-42. 2008..Findings support the construct validity of the FFMQ in a combination of samples not previously investigated... - Expectancy influences the operation of personality on behaviorSarah Fischer
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 17:108-14. 2003..Thus, the relationships of the trait risk factors to these 2 addictive behaviors are stronger if one also holds certain expectancies for reinforcement from those behaviors... - A theory of reservation-dwelling American Indian alcohol use riskNichea S Spillane
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Bull 133:395-418. 2007.... - Clarifying the role of impulsivity in bulimia nervosaSarah Fischer
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Int J Eat Disord 33:406-11. 2003.... - Recent advances in understanding the personality underpinnings of impulsive behavior and their role in risk for addictive behaviorsErica L Birkley
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, KY 40506 0044, USA
Curr Drug Abuse Rev 4:215-27. 2011.... - Similarities and differences between women and men on eating disorder risk factors and symptom measuresLaura M Boerner
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA
Eat Behav 5:209-22. 2004..Men had lower scores on symptom and risk measures, but not on other eating measures... - Women and acquired preparedness: personality and learning implications for alcohol useKristen G Anderson
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:384-92. 2003..The model holds that trait disinhibition influences the formation of alcohol expectancies, which then influence drinking levels... - Emotion-based dispositions to rash action: positive and negative urgencyMelissa A Cyders
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Bull 134:807-28. 2008..The authors discuss the implications of this theory... - Media effects on expectancies: exposure to realistic female images as a protective factorSuzannah M Fister
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 18:394-7. 2004..Media exposure to realistic female images appears to lessen the relationship between at-risk status and subsequent endorsement of thinness/restricting expectancies and may therefore disrupt the risk process... - Assessment of mindfulness by self-report: the Kentucky inventory of mindfulness skillsRuth A Baer
University of Kentucky, USA
Assessment 11:191-206. 2004.... - Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulnessRuth A Baer
University of Kentucky, Kentucky, USA
Assessment 13:27-45. 2006..Findings suggest that conceptualizing mindfulness as a multifaceted construct is helpful in understanding its components and its relationships with other variables... - A longitudinal transactional risk model for early eating disorder onsetCarolyn M Pearson
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:707-18. 2012..In turn, it predicted increases in high-risk eating expectancies by the spring of sixth grade, and thus heightened risk... - The measurement of dispositions to rash action in childrenTamika C B Zapolski
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Assessment 17:116-25. 2010..Pending further validation efforts, it appears to be the case that researchers may be able to distinguish among different dispositions to rash action prior to adolescence... - Scientific advances in the diagnosis of psychopathology: introduction to the special sectionGregory T Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Assess 21:241-2. 2009..The articles in this special section play 2 roles: They describe the fundamental changes that are necessary, and they provide a stepping stone for the next wave of advances in psychological assessment research... - Relations among religiousness, spirituality, and sexual practicesJessica L Burris
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
J Sex Res 46:282-9. 2009..Spirituality appears to have a unique and strong association with the sexual practices of young adults, particularly women, and should be assessed in future studies of young adults' sexual practices... - Construct validity: advances in theory and methodologyMilton E Strauss
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 0001, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 5:1-25. 2009.... - Similarities and differences between Caucasian and African American college women on eating and dieting expectancies, bulimic symptoms, dietary restraint, and disinhibitionJana G Atlas
Division of School Psychology, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, USA
Int J Eat Disord 32:326-34. 2002..The measures correlate similarly across race, suggesting that the risk process may be similar for both races, but African American women endorsed significantly fewer risk factors and fewer symptoms... - Reliability, stability, and factor structure of the Bulimia Test-Revised and Eating Disorder Inventory-2 scales in adolescenceDenis M McCarthy
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
Assessment 9:382-9. 2002..These results provide evidence of good psychometric performance for these scales in adolescence. The lack of change in these measures raises questions about the developmental trajectory of these variables through adolescence... - Elementary school drinking: the role of temperament and learningKristen G Anderson
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 19:21-7. 2005..Disinhibition moderated the relation between positive alcohol expectancies and drinking in some cases. Mediation was not supported... - Validation of eating and dieting expectancy measures in two adolescent samplesJean R Simmons
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Int J Eat Disord 31:461-73. 2002..DISCUSSION: Results were consistent with prior work on college and clinical samples, thus supporting use of the expectancy measures with adolescents... - Advancing the expectancy concept via the interplay between theory and researchFrances K Del Boca
University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 8200, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:926-35. 2002..Consistent with the notion of consilience, expectancy theory has demonstrated a convergence of findings across different levels of analysis, as well as across different operations, methods, and research designs...