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, Basil, Mathews, & Osinowo, 2006 ) including scholars carrying out research into SA. Invalid screening instruments for assessing SA in women Another reason for skewed prevalence rates may be the tools used to
necessary validity research or developing a proper theoretical foundation for behavioral addictions. This type of research will thus provide us with more screening instruments (confirmatory thinking), instead of stimulating the fundamental validation and
perspective in addition to adolescent ratings with adapted screening instruments (e.g., the SDQ, Goodman, 1997 ), and to compare these two perspectives. Combining external with self-reported ratings seems to be a promising approach for a deeper understanding
screener: Development and psychometric properties of a new screening instrument for the assessment of pathological buying symptoms . PLoS One, 10 ( 10 ), e0141094 . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141094
Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS; Lesieur & Blume, 1987 ) to evaluate the participants’ gambling-related behavior and problems. The SOGS is a widely used screening instrument for problem gambling and shows good reliability and validity in the community and
attributable to the fact that the AUDIT was developed as a screening instrument that seems very sensitive to problematic alcohol use with the risk to overestimate alcohol use disorder ( Rumpf, Hapke, Meyer & John, 2002 ). The conclusions are restrained
desirability, and the honesty of the responses given. Nonetheless, despite the relatively common procedure of data collection, other variations have been found. The studies reported here used many different problem gambling screening instruments. It is
( Berg et al., 2015 ). Problematic alcohol use was measured using the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT; Saunders, Aasland, Babor, Delafuente, & Grant, 1993 ), a 10-item questionnaire developed as a screening instrument for
screening instrument instructing guardians to indicate on a 3-point scale how many days during the past week, or during a “typical” week, certain sleep habits occur (“usually” 5–7 days, “sometimes” 2–4 days, and “rarely” 0–1 day). We also asked respondents
. Regarding these studies, let us address some primary concerns: (a) there is a lack of longitudinal studies to confirm the disorder’s stability; (b) the screening instruments used are not valid for diagnosis; (c) there is a large probability of false
