How well does a wellbeing measure predict psychiatric ‘caseness’ as well as suicide risk and self-harm in adolescents?

The presence of psychiatric disorders and psychological morbidity is commonly screened for by measures assessing pathological symptoms, with representative measures over recent decades including the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg  and Hillier, 1979) and the K-10 (Kessler et al., 2002). A risk to such self-report measures is that their weighting to ‘negative’ features can elicit denial, as participants often fail to report accurately on sensitive topics, commonly reflecting the impact of widely recognized social desir ability bias and denial biases.

Source: Psychiatry Research - July 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Gordon Parker, Isabelle Granville Smith, Amelia Paterson, Mia Romano, Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic, Tahlia Ricciardi Source Type: research