Exempel på self-report

• This is a 20-item self-report scale developed to measure depressive symptoms in the community.

• These data, however, were based on self-report and did not include manic symptoms.

• A different picture emerged using the self-report measures where significant differences were seen in all dimensions except paternal authoritarianism.

• First, only three dimensions of psychosis were considered suitable for inclusion in the self-report scale.

• These different dimensions are also differently represented in self-report, making convergence an empirical question rather than an expectation.

• The patients (all premorbidly right-handed, based on self-report) were diagnosed on the basis of a series of diagnostic tests and clinical reports.

• In general, respondents endorsed more social anxiety at the first administration irrespective of whether the format was self-report or clinician-administered.

• A related methodological limitation involves the exclusive use of self-report data.

• Subjects completed self-report measures, and were then interviewed by research psychologists and psychiatrists who administered structured and open-ended assessment schedules.

• Therefore, in pursuing the defensive exclusion hypothesis, an important question is how unresolved individuals might differ from dismissing individuals in their self-report patterns.

• The outcome measures in the trial were all validated, although it should be noted that all were self-report measures, and there was no observer-rated measure.

• We are not aware of any study that has validated this type of self-report data.

• If such self-report measures had been available, they could have importantly served as time-varying covariates of maternal reported symptoms from ages 5 to 11.

• It was observed that the two self-report wisdom scales were moderately correlated with each other (r=0.48), suggesting convergent validity.

• Furthermore, the method of assessment of ease of predication is not confined to self-report judgements.