Substantial concerns have been raised about the lack of an empirical basis for revisions made to the criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the DSM-5. Although researchers have examined the broader impact of these revisions on …

Suicide thoughts and behaviors (STBs) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) continue to be significant problems worldwide (Lim et al., 2019 ; Shepard et al., 2016 ), and they co-occur at high rates (Muehlenkamp et al., 2023 ; Voss et al., 2020 ).

Effective and efficient measures of functional impairment in youth are needed, as few validated measures exist. The youth-adapted Sheehan Disability Scale (Y-SDS) measures (1) child-reported impairment (Y-SDS-C), (2) parent reported child …

Adolescents with antisocial traits are more likely to commit violence and experience negative outcomes later in life. There is evidence for gender differences in the manifestations of antisocial personality features and functions of aggression …

Early adolescence, typically defined as the developmental stage between 10 and 14 years of age (Robards & Bennett, 2013 ), is characterized by hormonal, neural, and other bodily changes that occur with the onset of puberty (Berenbaum et al., 2015 ; …

Adolescents frequently experience social anxiety, with parents often serving as the primary source of clinical referral. Yet, adolescents’ needs for services often revolve around social anxiety that manifests when interacting with unfamiliar …

Social anxiety symptoms are associated with shyness and submissiveness. However, recent work has identified a subtype within Social Anxiety Disorder characterized by high levels of anger and impulsivity. This subtype bears conceptual similarities …

We report on the development of the Italian translation of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality-2 (SNAP-2). First, correspondence of the English and Italian versions was established through both the backtranslation method and …

Identifying transdiagnostic mechanisms that relate to nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), the intentional destruction of one’s own body tissue without suicidal intent and for purposes not culturally or socially sanctioned, is critical for the …

A body of research has examined how psychopathic personality traits may be related to the recognition of emotional facial expressions, and results have been mixed. The present study used a new set of naturalistic, non-posed photos of emotional …

The Ryerson Social Anxiety Scales (RSAS) are a new measure to assess the severity of social anxiety symptoms. The purpose of the present study was to develop the Persian version of the Ryerson Social Anxiety Scales (RSAS-P) and examine its factor …

Although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by negative affect (NA), much less is known about daily fluctuations in positive affect (PA) and its association with NA in PTSD. In the present study, participants with sexual …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol misuse frequently co-occur following trauma exposure, with individuals often experiencing detrimental outcomes. The self-medication hypothesis postulates that those with posttraumatic stress …

Idiographic measures, such as the Top Problems Assessment (TPA), offer great utility over nomothetic measures as they can be used to characterize participants in a person-centered manner. Despite such utility, idiographic measures rely on …

Automated coding has the potential to streamline otherwise laborious manual coding of psychologically relevant human behaviour. For example, automated coding of adults’ written language (e.g., social media posts) shows that incidental language …

Several theories suggest that mood disorders, like depression and anxiety, involve relatively systematic biases in how one imagines and predicts their future feelings. Here, we examine whether affective forecasting errors for mildly evocative …

Depression is considered a leading cause of illness and disability worldwide. Early identification of depressive symptomatology is urgent to prevent its negative consequences in the lives of children and adolescents. The Mood and Feelings …

The factor structure, reliability, and concurrent validity of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire were evaluated in a large clinical sample (N = 1,294). Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the previously supported two-factor solution …

In this study, we examined the unique associations between functional impairment and different psychopathology domains across childhood and adolescence. We examined whether functional impairment’s associations with psychopathological domains can …

Concerns about physical appearance are a salient feature of several psychiatric conditions, and various self-report-based measures of appearance concerns have been developed for different disorders. An important question, with implications for …