Abstract:The PAS-ADD Checklist is a screening instrument specifically designed to help staff recognize mental health problems in the people with intellectual disability for whom they care, and to make informed referral decisions. The instrument consists of a life-events checklist and 29 symptom items scored on a four-point scale. Scores are combined to provide three threshold scores. The crossing of any of these thresholds indicates the need for a fuller assessment. The items are worded in everyday language, making the… Show more
“…The PAS-ADD Checklist is a reliable measure of psychopathology for people with ID (Moss, Prosser, Costello, Simpson, & Patel, 1998). A key informant, such as a family or staff member completed the PAS-ADD Checklist for each individual.…”
There have been few studies of psychopathology in adult with autism. This study examined psychiatric co-morbidity in 147 adults with intellectual disability (ID) and autism and 605 adults with ID but without autism. After controlling for the effects of gender, age, psychotropic medication and level of ID, people with autism and ID were no more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis than people with ID only. People with autism were less likely to receive a diagnosis of personality disorder. These findings cast doubts on the hypothesis that adults with ID and autism are more vulnerable to certain psychiatric disorders than non-autistic adults with ID.
“…The PAS-ADD Checklist is a reliable measure of psychopathology for people with ID (Moss, Prosser, Costello, Simpson, & Patel, 1998). A key informant, such as a family or staff member completed the PAS-ADD Checklist for each individual.…”
There have been few studies of psychopathology in adult with autism. This study examined psychiatric co-morbidity in 147 adults with intellectual disability (ID) and autism and 605 adults with ID but without autism. After controlling for the effects of gender, age, psychotropic medication and level of ID, people with autism and ID were no more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis than people with ID only. People with autism were less likely to receive a diagnosis of personality disorder. These findings cast doubts on the hypothesis that adults with ID and autism are more vulnerable to certain psychiatric disorders than non-autistic adults with ID.
“…One recent study (Hastings, Hatton, Taylor, & Maddison, 2004) summarized information on 17 major life events for 1155 individuals with ID according to informants, using the PAS-ADD checklist (Moss et al, 1998) and reported a relationship between significant life events and psychopathology, particularly in the affective domain. Another recent study (Owen et al, 2004) on 93 individuals with ID in an institutional setting used the Life Events List (LEL), a 20-item informant completed list of negative life events thought to be particularly relevant to individuals with ID in a long term residential setting.…”
Background. Stress is a major risk factor for mental health problems in individuals with intellectual disabilities, but few studies on stress have been conducted that take both the perspective of the person with the disability and the caregiver into account. The present study evaluated an informant version of the Lifestress Inventory, and compared it to the self-report version.. Method. Seventy pairs of individuals with intellectual disability and their caregivers completed the Lifestress Inventory, the Inventory of Negative Social Interactions and the Birleson Depression Scale. Results. Informant and self-report ratings on the Lifestress Inventory were internally reliable, showed modest agreement with each other and correlated with the negative Social Interactions and Depression measures. The most troublesome stressors reported by informants and self-reports differed, however, and families tended to agree more with self-reports than staff informants. Conclusions. The informant version of the Lifestress Inventory is a suitable parallel instrument but not a replacement for self reports.
“…With ten items of political participation and the narrow range of value for each item used in this study, this estimate of reliability is acceptable according to Loewenthal (1996). More discussions about reliability can be found in Cortina (1993), Goforth (2015), Hair et al (2006), Moss et al (1998), Schmitt (1996), and Streiner and Norman (2008).…”
This paper extends understanding of the relationship between media use and attitudes toward democratic values. We employ the two-step estimation approach to examine the relationship between media use and attitudes toward democratic values as well as consequential association with political participation. The empirical results show that media use to obtain news information is positively related to attitudes toward democratic values. The findings also note that attitudes toward democratic values are positively associated with engagement in politics. The results support the argument that media use is significant for shaping citizens' attitudes toward democratic values by providing information about public affairs and expanding citizens' understanding about democratic politics. As such, media use facilitates democratic socialization and leads to more involvement in political behaviors.
IntroductionScholarly discussions on the relationship between media use and political participation have shifted their focus away from the effects of traditional media, such as television, radio, and newspapers, toward digital media, especially the Internet. The rapid development of information technology since the late 1990s, providing online information and network connections facilitated by the Internet, has largely changed the pattern and the relationship between media use and political participation. These changes have drawn the attention of scholars to analyze the effects of digital media use on several important issues. Previous studies show that media use has strong effects on civic culture and political engagements (Kittilson and Dalton, 2011;Gil de Zúñiga et al., 2012). It is in fact argued that media use enhances information acquisition, community formation, and the promotion of civic-oriented behaviors, as well as providing lowcost opportunities for people to become involved in public affairs and to express their personal opinions. The change in the range of available media may significantly alter people's perceptions about democratic values and their attitudes toward politics, and therefore change the pattern of people's political participation.
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