Assessment Instruments in Health Psychology and Psychological Wellbeing

Dear Colleagues,

An important issue that is sometimes forgotten when working with a test is that it must be a reliable and valid standardized tool. Tests related to the areas of Health and Psychological Wellbeing are used in professional practice to make diagnoses or make decisions about patients, but they are also used for research purposes. Furthermore, on many occasions, these tests are used to carry out cross-cultural studies, but the equivalence of the measures between different countries has not been previously verified.

This Special Issue focuses on methodological works aimed at studying the psychometric properties of tests related to the areas of Health Psychology and Psychological Wellbeing, as well as measurement invariance between countries or between groups of people. Likewise, we hope to receive contributions on qualitative and quantitative approaches for the assessment of constructs and studies of item bias when adapting tests and questionnaires, using complex statistical procedures such as item response theory, structural equation modeling, generalizability theory and others. Theoretical articles, simulation studies, empirical works and reviews of the state of the art in Psychometrics, specially focusing in any area of Health and Psychological Wellbeing assessment and/or considering new perspectives in the study of test translation and adaptation are welcome.

Dr. Begoña Espejo
Dr. Irene Checa
Guest Editors

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