Frontiers in Psychiatry is proud to present our Psychometrics series. This series of Article Collections will deal with the definition and measurement of anxiety and stress related constructs. Measurement underpins the scientific method which is of vital importance to the field of psychology. If findings are to be considered reliable and valid this must also apply to their constructs (i.e., anxiety and stress) and thus operationalisations - the scales used to collect research data.
The Psychometrics in Anxiety and Stress Disorders Article Collection aims to collect original research and review articles on new developments and applications of psychometrics and psychiatric assessment of anxiety and stress. We particularly welcome multi-sample work where scales are developed or validated using open science practices. Submissions may rely on non-clinical samples, or those that are not often used such as children, older adults, and non-WEIRD samples, however clinical relevance of findings should be clear.
Articles can include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Clinical psychometrics and their comparison to the clinimetric approach
- New scale validation and existing scale abbreviation
- Translation and cultural adaptions across different countries
- Validity and reliability assessment of anxiety and stress related scales
- Systematic / meta-analytic reviews of psychometric scales
- New and state of the art psychometric assessment such as network analysis
Frontiers in Psychiatry is proud to present our Psychometrics series. This series of Article Collections will deal with the definition and measurement of anxiety and stress related constructs. Measurement underpins the scientific method which is of vital importance to the field of psychology. If findings are to be considered reliable and valid this must also apply to their constructs (i.e., anxiety and stress) and thus operationalisations - the scales used to collect research data.
The Psychometrics in Anxiety and Stress Disorders Article Collection aims to collect original research and review articles on new developments and applications of psychometrics and psychiatric assessment of anxiety and stress. We particularly welcome multi-sample work where scales are developed or validated using open science practices. Submissions may rely on non-clinical samples, or those that are not often used such as children, older adults, and non-WEIRD samples, however clinical relevance of findings should be clear.
Articles can include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Clinical psychometrics and their comparison to the clinimetric approach
- New scale validation and existing scale abbreviation
- Translation and cultural adaptions across different countries
- Validity and reliability assessment of anxiety and stress related scales
- Systematic / meta-analytic reviews of psychometric scales
- New and state of the art psychometric assessment such as network analysis
