How Childhood Trauma and Drinking Motives Predict Campus Sexual Assault: A Comparison of Different Analytical Styles

by lgrasser@med.wayne.edu | Oct 14, 2025 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Trauma Blog Topics

   Tara Hedayati, Shalet S. Punnoose, Sabrin Ghuman, Kayleigh N. Watters, & Mikael Rubin October 14, 2025   Sexual assault remains a significant issue on college campuses, with 20-25% of college women and 6-8% of men reporting an experience of sexual assault...

MIDS

by ellie.mcafee@emory.edu | Oct 21, 2024 | Assessment and Psychometrics

Home 9 Search query for: pcl 5 scoring Moral Injury and Distress Scale (MIDS) The MIDS is a self-report measure that assesses exposure to potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) and the possible psychosocial and functional impacts of moral injury. It is...

A score of 27 or greater on the Moral Injury and Distress Scale (MIDS) identifies clinically meaningful and impairing moral injury – Sonya B. Norman, Shira Maguen, Brandon J. Griffin

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 28, 2024 | Assessment and Psychometrics, Trauma Blog Topics

Background on Moral Injury Moral injury is the emotional pain and functional impairment people can experience after participating in, failing to prevent, or witnessing highly stressful events that transgress their beliefs about right and wrong. In recent years, there...

Using registries and electronic health record data to study posttraumatic psychopathology – Laura Sampson, Ananda B. Amstadter, Kelsey N. Serier, & Jaimie L. Gradus

by ISTSS Blogs | Mar 22, 2024 | Assessment and Psychometrics

Overview of Electronic Health Record data As in many fields, the use of “big data” has become more common in psychiatric research, alongside major technologic and computational advances in recent decades. Electronic health records (EHR) can be considered...

Grief vs. Depression: Are they related to the bereaved or the deceased? – Arda Bağcaz and Cengiz Kılıç

by ISTSS Blogs | Jan 2, 2024 | Assessment and Psychometrics

The loss of a loved one is a negative life event that most individuals go through at some point in their lives. Although the majority of bereaved people psychologically recover with time, some may develop depression and/or prolonged grief disorder (Zisook &...

Research Methods: The Case for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems – Margaret Morison, MA

by ISTSS Blogs | Sep 29, 2022 | Assessment and Psychometrics, StressPoints

Nonlinear dynamic systems (NDS) is a general theory that describes and predicts changes over time (i.e., dynamics; Gregson & Guastello, 2011). Whereas a linear approach assumes that input is proportional to output, NDS allows us to model sudden changes, such as...