Psychological screening inventory: A comprehensive review

Abstract

The Psychological Screening Inventory is a relatively brief, easy to administer and score screening instrument that was designed for use by a wide range of professional mental health workers. A comprehensive review of the empirical literature suggests moderate reliability, generally stable factor structure, and adequate validity, particularly for use with college undergraduates, with reformatory and prison inmates, and with psychiatric outpatients.

The effect of early group psychotherapy on depressive symptoms and quality of life among residents of an apartment building for seniors

“…The three versions of the HDRS differ in the number of items, with 17, 21, or 24 items. The item‐total correlation of the HDRS is approximately 0.2 to 0.8, and the interrater reliability is above 0.84 . The reliability and validity is dependent on the experience of the rater and can be increased with practice.…”

Mexican-Americans' performance on the psychological screening inventory as a function of acculturation level

“…The outcome of the present study provides results from Mexican-American college students' performance on the PSI. This information should prove useful as data against which other Hispanic-American populations can be compared because most PSI norms have been derived primarily from Anglo-American subjects (Vieweg & Hedlund, 1984). When psychological assessments are developed on one racial or cultural group and then administered to persons of a dissimilar race or culture, test responses from the latter group often differ from the average responses by the former group on which the instrument originally was standardized (Aiken, 1985).…”

Development of scales to assess specific deception strategies in the Psychological Screening Inventory.

“…As with the F scale, Ra is also related to major psychopathology. Details of PSI scale construction, psychometric properties, and validity evidence for the basic uses of each scale are given in the Manual and elsewhere (Lanyon, 1974(Lanyon, ,1978Vieweg & Hedlund, 1984).…”