Journal of Personality Assessment

期刊简介：The Journal of Personality Assessment (JPA) seeks to publish articles on the methods and applications related to the psychological assessment of psychopathology, maladaptive personality, and normative personality processes. JPA strives to publish cutting edge research, which can occur in a number of contexts and settings, including clinical/consulting, counseling, neuropsychological, forensic, health, social/community, multicultural, developmental/educational, industrial/organizational, and screening of candidates for public safety positions. The journal is interested in receiving manuscripts that consider development and validation of new assessment processes and tests, as well as advance the clinical utility and ecological validity of personality assessment in clinical and nonclinical populations. For those papers reporting on the psychometric development of an instrument, the utility, impact, and overall contribution of the findings to the literature will be carefully considered when evaluating papers that will be reviewed and accepted for publication. Ideally, both self-report and non-self-report assessment methods will be part of the validation process, though this is not required for papers to be considered for publication. Papers that report on studies that use causal or process-focused approaches to validity are particularly encouraged. Moreover, research that focuses exclusively on internal structure (e.g., factor analysis, item response theory) without external validation data are unlikely to be published unless exceptional significance and innovation to the field are clearly articulated. Research that examines a new translation of a test must also substantially advance the broader literature on the test itself to be published. Finally, research using convenience samples, such as university students or crowdsourcing (e.g., Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, Prolific, Qualtrics), will be considered for publication, but it is important that authors clearly consider the impact of findings with respect to validity and utility (especially for clinical topics) in light of possible generalizability limitations. Papers devoted to test construction, methods, processes, and applicability of personality assessment in forensic and health care settings are especially desired. JPA also is interested in articles addressing under-studied areas and promising but under-utilized methods. These include (a) systematic reviews or meta-analyses that summarize a body of evidence, (b) the effective integration of nomothetic empirical findings with the idiographic requirements of practice in which the assessor reasons through test and extra-test information to make individualized judgments and provide assessment feedback, (c) the practical value of the clinical assessment process for individuals receiving services and/or those who refer them for evaluation, and (d) an evaluation of cultural, ethnic, and other sociodemographic factors that affect assessment. Finally, JPA will periodically publish special sections or a special issue related to a topic on personality assessment. JPA regularly publishes two sections that focus upon some of its broad areas of interest: Statistical Developments and Applications and Clinical Applications and Case Studies. The goals of the Statistical Developments and Applications (SDA) section are to keep researchers and clinicians informed of new statistical procedures, provide new knowledge about old procedures, and illustrate ways in which statistical procedures have practical applications in personality assessment research or practice. Methodology and design issues will also be considered on occasion. The section hopes to educate researchers to help maximize the quality of the published assessment literature, while simultaneously providing clinicians with easy-to-understand and accessible descriptions of statistical matters. Papers submitted to the SDA section should be accessible to a wide audience, have explicit and clear relevance for personality assessment, and be explicit about the importance of the issues that they address. The goals of the Clinical Applications and Case Studies (CACS) section is two-fold. First, we aim to translate basic science assessment research without obvious clinical implications in terms of clinical applicability. In other words, how can the findings relate to and be used in clinicians’ practice? Articles selected for translation will be those for which the immediate clinical implications are less clear, such as articles that are of a highly technical nature or are written by authors who do not have a clinical background. A research translation article will appear in at least every other issue with authors being invited to contribute by the CASC section editors. Second, the section publishes clinical case studies, but a high threshold for publication exists. Specifically, case studies either must use empirical data to test hypotheses about clinical utility (see e.g., Smith, 2012, on single-case experimental designs) or they must inform and move forward personality assessment in a significant and theoretically meaningful way. JPA invites comments and product reviews. Each comment should express a substantive opinion on an issue germane to personality assessment, including articles from recent JPA issues; comments on JPA articles should be submitted within three months of the target article’s publication online. The Book, Test, and Software Reviews section publishes brief, paragraph-length descriptions of new personality assessment products as well as detailed reviews written by an expert in the field. Reviews should evaluate the strengths and limitations of books, tests, or software that are relevant to personality assessment practice or research. Comments and reviews typically will be limited to 1,000 words and an abstract is not required. JPA is the official journal of the Society for Personality Assessment. Peer Review Policy: Unless noted otherwise, all articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous review by two referees. 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【译文】《人格评估杂志》(JPA) 旨在发表与精神病理学、适应不良人格和规范人格过程的心理评估相关的方法和应用的文章。 JPA 致力于发表前沿研究，这些研究可以在多种背景和环境中进行，包括临床/咨询、咨询、神经心理学、法医、健康、社会/社区、多元文化、发展/教育、工业/组织以及公共安全职位候选人的筛选。该杂志有兴趣接收考虑新评估流程和测试的开发和验证，以及提高人格评估在临床和非临床人群中的临床实用性和生态有效性的手稿。对于那些报告心理测量工具发展的论文，在评估将被审查和接受发表的论文时，将仔细考虑研究结果的实用性、影响力和对文献的总体贡献。理想情况下，自我报告和非自我报告评估方法都将成为验证过程的一部分，尽管这对于考虑发表的论文来说不是必需的。特别鼓励报告使用因果或以过程为中心的有效性方法的研究的论文。此外，专门关注内部结构（例如因子分析、项目反应理论）而没有外部验证数据的研究不太可能发表，除非明确阐明对该领域的特殊意义和创新。检验测试新翻译的研究还必须实质性地推进有关测试本身的更广泛的文献的出版。最后，使用便利样本的研究，例如大学生或众包（例如亚马逊的 Mechanical Turk、Prolific、Qualtrics）将被考虑发表，但重要的是，作者根据可能的普遍性限制，明确考虑研究结果对有效性和实用性（特别是临床主题）的影响。特别需要致力于测试构建、方法、过程以及性格评估在法医和医疗保健环境中的适用性的论文。 JPA 还对涉及研究不足的领域和有前途但未充分利用的方法的文章感兴趣。这些包括（a）总结大量证据的系统评价或荟萃分析，（b）将理论实证结果与实践的具体要求有效整合，其中评估者通过测试和额外测试信息进行推理，以做出个性化判断并提供评估反馈，（c）临床评估过程对于接受服务的个人和/或将其转介进行评估的人的实际价值，以及（d）对影响评估的文化，种族和其他社会人口因素的评估。最后，JPA 将定期发布与人格评估主题相关的专题章节或特刊。 JPA 定期发布两个部分，重点关注其感兴趣的一些广泛领域：统计发展和应用以及临床应用和案例研究。统计发展和应用（SDA）部分的目标是让研究人员和临床医生了解新的统计程序，提供有关旧程序的新知识，并说明统计程序在人格评估研究或实践中的实际应用方式。有时也会考虑方法和设计问题。该部分希望教育研究人员帮助最大限度地提高已发表评估文献的质量，同时为临床医生提供易于理解和易于理解的统计问题描述。提交给 SDA 部分的论文应该可供广大读者阅读，与人格评估具有明确且明确的相关性，并明确说明其所解决问题的重要性。临床应用和案例研究 (CACS) 部分的目标有两个。首先，我们的目标是将没有明显临床意义的基础科学评估研究转化为临床适用性。换句话说，这些发现如何与临床医生的实践相关并用于临床医生的实践？选择翻译的文章将是那些直接应用于临床的文章