Stephan Toggweiler

Der Foto-Interessentest Serie FIT 2003

Zusammenfassung. Berufsinteressen spielen in der Berufspsychologie und in der Berufs- und Laufbahnberatung eine wichtige Rolle. Die meisten Berufsinteresseninventare beruhen auf verbalen Reizgrundlagen, der Foto-Interessentest (FIT) mit Berufsfotos von Gubler und Gerosa verwendet hingegen fotografische Stimuli. Der Test stutzt sich auf zwei verschiedene Modelle von Berufsinteressen: die neun Berufsfelder von Egloff und die RIASEC-Dimensionen von Holland. Inzwischen wurde der ursprungliche FIT 1998 zum zweiten Mal (Serien 2000 und 2003) aktualisiert und uberarbeitet hin zur Serie FIT 2003. Die Neukonstruktion, Uberprufung und Normierung des Tests anhand einer Stichprobe von 438 Jugendlichen unterstutzt dessen Anwendung. Ergebnisse bezuglich Reliabilitat und Validitat der Holland-Dimensionen werden berichtet. Signifikante Unterschiede zwischen den Geschlechtern und den Schultypen entsprechen in der Stichprobe uberwiegend den Ergebnissen von verbalen Berufsinteressentests. Die Alterskohorten von 14-, 15- und...

HoNOSCA-D As a Measure of the Severity of Diagnosed Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents—Psychometric Properties of the German Translation

The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA), in use worldwide, is a 13-item measure assessing the biopsychosocial severity of mental health problems in children and adolescents. This article introduces the authorized German-language version of HoNOSCA, the HoNOSCA-D, and examines and discusses its psychometric properties based on a clinical sample of 1,533 children and adolescents aged 4;0 to 17;11u2009years. For the HoNOSCA-D total score (severity of mental health problems), internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) was 0.63. The discriminative power of the items ranged from 0.07 to 0.44; the average interitem correlation was 0.11. Due to this stochastic independence, calculation of a total severity index is acceptable. Using factor analysis, the principal axis factoring and varimax rotation resulted in a four-factor structure, which with a Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure of sampling adequacy of 0.684 explained 30.62% of total variance. The convergent correlations with the German-language parent report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire were as expected and showed a medium effect size. Gender and age differences in the HoNOSCA-D total score were small. Regarding the 13 items gender and age differences were negligible to medium. The highest severity was found for schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, followed by affective disorders and social behavior disorders. Overall, validity of HoNOSCA-D was clearly supported.