Psychometric properties of the affective reactivity index in Australian adults and adolescents

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 148-155

  Mulraney, Melissa A ^a   Melvin, Glenn A ^a   Tonge, Bruce J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affective reactivity index; Irritability; Psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE REACTIVITY INDEX; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHILD; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER SCREEN; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; REYNOLDS ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; YOUNG ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE MOOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896714998     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034891     Document Type: Article

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