Construct Validity of the Perceived Criticism Measure

Chambless, Dianne L.; Blake, Kimberly D.

doi:10.1016/j.beth.2008.05.005

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“…Evidence has further suggested that PC reflects destructive rather than constructive criticism (Peterson & Smith, 2010) and converges with spouses' own ratings of how critical they view themselves (Chambless & Blake, 2009;Chambless & Steketee, 1999) as well as with ratings of general criticism made by untrained coders during interactions between partners (Chambless & Blake, 2009;Smith & Peterson, 2008). Thus, PC may be best understood not as a proxy for an underlying third variable but as a measure of how much criticism gets through to a patient.…”

Section: Empirical Articlementioning

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Cognitive-Processing Biases in Individuals High on Perceived Criticism

Masland

Hooley

Tully

et al. 2014

Clinical Psychological Science

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A considerable literature now shows that perceived criticism (PC) predicts clinical outcomes transdiagnostically. Recent work has begun to identify potential mechanisms underlying PC's connection to clinical outcomes. For example, anomalies have been found in neural processing when individuals who rate their key relatives as highly critical listen to criticism. To explore whether high-PC individuals are also characterized by other processing abnormalities, we examined cognitive processing in a sample of community participants (N = 76) high or low on PC. We measured the executive control of attention when these two groups of individuals processed emotional information and interpreted acoustically presented ambiguous words. High-PC individuals showed impaired executive control of negative emotional information relative to low-PC individuals. They also made more negative interpretations of ambiguous words. These findings indicate that PC is associated with underlying vulnerabilities that may predispose individuals to develop psychopathology.

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Section: Empirical Articlementioning

confidence: 88%

Cognitive-Processing Biases in Individuals High on Perceived Criticism

Masland

Hooley

Tully

et al. 2014

Clinical Psychological Science

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“…Overall, perceived criticism from spouses and other relatives has shown reasonably good discriminant validity with measures of psychopathology (see review by Renshaw, 2008). Perceived criticism has demonstrated good convergent validity with spouses’ and other relatives’ own reports of how critical they are of the respondent (Chambless et al, 1999; Chambless & Blake, 2009), untrained coders’ ratings of the extent of spouses’ observed criticism during a problem-solving interaction (Chambless & Blake, 2009; Smith & Peterson, 2008), and marital dissatisfaction (Chambless & Blake, 2009; Smith & Peterson, 2008). Participants in construct validity studies have included clinical and community samples.…”

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“…On the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, only 8% percent of the women and 14% of men scored below the cutoff score of 98 (Jacobson, Schmaling, & Holtzworth-Munroe, 1987), reflecting marital distress. For additional demographic details on this sample, see Chambless and Blake (2009).…”

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“…Indeed, Peterson, Smith, and Windle (2009) found a self-report questionnaire assessing spouses’ attributions for their partners’ negative behaviors in general was correlated to criticality bias scores obtained from a subsequent laboratory interaction between spouses. Moreover, perceived criticism is significantly and negatively correlated with marital adjustment (Chambless & Blake, 2009; Smith & Peterson, 2008) and marital adjustment is predicted both concurrently and longitudinally by negative attributions (Bradbury & Fincham, 1990; Fincham, Bradbury, Arias, Byrne, & Karney, 1997). Both attribution theory and a scant amount of empirical data thus suggest that a better understanding of the relationship of attributions about relatives’ behavior may prove fruitful in elucidating the nature of perceived criticism.…”

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Attributions for Relatives' Behavior and Perceived Criticism: Studies With Community Participants and Patients With Anxiety Disorders

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The relationship between perceived criticism from one’s relative and attributions about that relative’s behavior was examined in two studies. In Study 1, 50 community couples volunteered to participate in a study of marital interaction. Participants rated their interaction-specific perceived criticism after a 10-min problem-solving interaction and their attributions for their spouses’ behavior during a review of the videotaped interaction. In Study 2, 70 outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (n = 41) or panic disorder with agoraphobia (n = 29) completed a measure of global perceived criticism in their relationship with their spouse or other family member and on another occasion participated in a 10-min problem-solving interaction with that relative. Using interaction transcripts, coders extracted and coded attributions from patients’ speech and, using the videotapes themselves, rated relatives’ observable criticism. In both studies higher scores on negative attributions were related to higher perceived criticism ratings. In Study 2, negative attributions contributed to the prediction of perceived criticism above and beyond the contribution of observed criticism. These findings suggest that targeting attributions about perceived criticism may be fruitful in reducing the negative impact of perceived criticism on treatment outcome for a variety of psychiatric disorders.

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“…For the purposes of this study, parent and youth perceived criticism ratings functioned as a measure of youth-perceived and caregiver-perceived familial distress. Youth and caregivers rated items on a single scale from 1 ( not at all critical ) to 10 ( very critical indeed ), with probes such as “How critical is your mother of you?”/” How critical are you of your son or daughter?” The PC has demonstrated robust test-rest reliability and convergent validity (Chambless and Blake 2009; Chambless and Steketee 1999; Hooley and Teasdale 1989). …”

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Youth-caregiver Agreement on Clinical High-risk Symptoms of Psychosis

Golembo-Smith

Bachman

Şentürk

et al. 2013

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Early identification of individuals who will go on to develop schizophrenia is a difficult endeavor. The variety of symptoms experienced by clinical high-risk youth make it difficult to identify who will eventually develop schizophrenia in the future. Efforts are being made, therefore, to more accurately identify at-risk individuals and factors that predict conversion to psychosis. As in most assessments of children and adolescents, however, both youth and parental report of symptomatology and resulting dysfunction are important to assess. The goals of the current study were to assess the extent of cross-informant agreement on the Structured Interview for Prodromal Symptoms (SIPS), a widely-used tool employed to determine clinical high-risk status. A total of 84 youth-caregiver pairs participated. Youth and caregiver raters displayed moderate overall agreement on SIPS-rated symptoms. Both youth and caregiver ratings of youth symptomatology contributed significantly to predicting conversion to psychosis. In addition, youth age and quality of youth-caregiver relationships appear to be related to cross-informant symptom ratings. Despite differences on individual SIPS domains, the majority of dyads agreed on youth clinical high-risk status. Results highlight the potential clinical utility of using caregiver informants to determine youth psychosis risk.

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Construct Validity of the Perceived Criticism Measure

Cited by 42 publications

References 22 publications

Cognitive-Processing Biases in Individuals High on Perceived Criticism

Cognitive-Processing Biases in Individuals High on Perceived Criticism

Attributions for Relatives' Behavior and Perceived Criticism: Studies With Community Participants and Patients With Anxiety Disorders

Youth-caregiver Agreement on Clinical High-risk Symptoms of Psychosis

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