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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access originally published online on May 31, 2009
Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2009 34(7):691-696; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsp046
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Editorial: An Author's Checklist for Measure Development and Validation Manuscripts

Grayson N. Holmbeck and Katie A. Devine

Loyola University Chicago

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Grayson N. Holmbeck, Loyola University Chicago, Department of Psychology, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626. E-mail: gholmbe@luc.edu

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A recent special issue of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology included papers focused on evidence-based assessment across several broad domains of assessment in pediatric psychology (e.g., adherence, pediatric pain, and quality of life). In one of these papers, Holmbeck et al. (2008Go) reviewed strengths and limitations of existing measures of psychosocial adjustment and psychopathology, concluding that many measures lacked supporting psychometric data (e.g., basic indices of reliability and validity) that would permit a complete evaluation of these measures. Given that measure development and validation papers are frequently published in JPP (Brown, 2007Go), it is important that we attend to guiding psychometric principles when developing and disseminating data on new measures to be employed with pediatric populations (Nunnally & Bernstein, 1994Go). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to present and describe a checklist for authors to use when submitting measure development papers to JPP. This checklist . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Overview of Checklist for Measure Development Papers
 

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Criteria and Checklist for Measure Development Papers

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