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A - Z of Psychological Tests and Measures: PQ

Finding tests,scales and questionnaires for Psychology
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Paranormal Beliefs Questionnaire

McGarry and Newberry. 1981.

 Beliefs in paranormal phenomena and locus of control: a field study.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41 (4), pp. 725-736.

Paranormal Scale

Tobacy and Milford. 1983.

 Belief in paranormal phenomena: assessment instrument development and implications for personality functioning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44 (5), pp. 1029-1037.

Parenting Stress Index (PSI)

Abidin

The PSI is a parent self-report, 101-item questionnaire, designed to identify potentially dysfunctional parent-child systems.

Please consult your supervisor for approval.
Location: Treforest Campus

Perceived Stress Scale

Cohen, Kamarck, Mermelstein

Measures stress appraisal

Please consult your supervisor for approval.
Location: Treforest Campus

Perceptions of Success Questionnaire (POSQ)

Roberts, Treasure and Balague (1998)

A 12 item questionnaire measuring two subscales (mastery and competitive goals) on a 5 point likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree).

Please consult your supervisor for approval.
Location: Treforest Campus

Physical Symptoms

Adapted from Pennebaker (1982)

Physical symptoms experience during stressful experiences questionnaire.

Please consult your supervisor for approval.
Location: Treforest Campus

Piers-Harris 2 Children's Self-Concept Scale 2nd Ed (PHCSCS-2)

Ellen Piers & David Herzberg, published by WPS

It is a 60-item self-report questionnaire subtitles “The Way I Feel About Myself”.  It is suitable for use with young people aged 7-18 years.  Respondents are provided with statements that express how people may feel about themselves and asked to indicate whether each statement applies to them by choosing yes or no. Most respondents can complete the scale in 10-15 minutes.

Please consult your supervisor for approval.
Location: Treforest Campus

Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index

Schutte, N. S. & Malouff, J. M. 1995.

 Sourcebook of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 349-358.

Pleasant Events Schedule

Schutte, N. S. & Malouff, J. M. 1995.

 Sourcebook of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 412-425.

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

Watson, D et al. 1988.  Development and Validation of Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect: The PANAS Scales.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54 (6), pp. 1063-1070.

This measure consists of 10 items measuring negative affect and 10 items measuring positive affect.  There is also a 53-item version of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS-X; Watson & Clark, 1994).  Used to assess global and discrete emotions, the items consist of adjectives describing each affect and are rated for how much they were experienced in general on a 5-point Likert scale (1=not at all and 5=extremely).

Please consult your supervisor for approval.
Location: Treforest Campus

Post-Sleep Inventory

Schutte, N. S. & Malouff, J. M. 1995.

Sourcebook of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 333-338

Pre-Sleep Arousal Scale

Schutte, N. S. & Malouff, J. M. 1995.

Sourcebook of adult assessment strategies. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 339-241

Profile of Mood States (POMS)

McNair, Douglas M.; Lorr, Maurice; Droppleman, Leo F

A measure of mood or affective states.

Please consult your supervisor for approval.
Location: Treforest Campus

Profile of Non-Verbal Sensitivity (PONS) Test

Rosenthal, R. and Depaulo, B.M. 1979. 

 The structure of nonverbal decoding skills.  Journal of Personality, 47 (3), pp. 506-517.

Psychopathy Check List - Revised

Dolan, M. and Doyle, M.  2000.

Violence risk prediction: Clinical and actuarial measures and the role of the Psychopathy Checklist. British Journal of Psychiatry, 177 (4), pp. 303-311.

Purpose in Life Test

Robinson, J.P. et al. 1991  

Measures of personality & social psychological attitudes. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 335-339.