… Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Darcy A. Santor,
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 4J1 …

Existing measures of peer pressure and conformity may not be suitable for screening large
numbers of adolescents efficiently, and few studies have differentiated peer pressure from …

Conceptual problems with existing measures of Erikson's ego-integrity construct were
identified. It was hypothesized that a core component of ego-integrity involves how individuals …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the use and impact of a dedicated health information Web site for
adolescents. METHOD: Five hundred fifty-eight (27.2%) of all students in grades 7 through 12 …

Scale discriminability is the ability of a measure to discriminate among individuals ordered
along some continuum, such as depressive severity. We used a nonparametric item-response …

Psychometric analyses evaluated how primary care patients with and without major depressive
disorder endorsed individual response options on the Center for Epidemiologic Studies—…

This research examined gender differences in catastrophizing and pain in 80 healthy students
(42 women, 38 men) who participated in an experimental pain procedure. Participants …

JC Coyne and VE Whiffen (1995) reviewed research on personality vulnerability to depression,
focusing on SJ Blatt's (1974, 1990) concepts of dependency and self-criticism and AT …

Aims This study explores gender differences in the association between substance use and
elevated depressive symptoms in the general adolescent population. Design Cross‐…

PURPOSE In 2004, we undertook a consultation with Canadian primary health care experts
to define the attributes that should be evaluated in predominant and proposed models of …