Lee Anna Clark

Tripartite model of anxiety and depression: Psychometric evidence and taxonomic implications.

Testing a tripartite model: II. Exploring the symptom structure of anxiety and depression in student, adult, and patient samples.

Negative affectivity: The disposition to experience aversive emotional states.

A number of apparently diverse personality scales—variously called trait anxiety, neuroticism, ego strength, general maladjustment, repression-sensitization, and social desirabi...

Structures of personality and their relevance to psychopathology.

Trait concepts are used extensively in psychopathology research, but much of this research has failed to consider recent advances in the dimensional structure of personality. Ma...

Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development.

A primary goal of scale development is to create a valid measure of an underlying construct. We discuss theoretical principles, practical issues, and pragmatic decisions to help...

Constructing validity: New developments in creating objective measuring instruments.

In this update of Clark and Watson (1995), we provide a synopsis of major points of our earlier article and discuss issues in scale construction that have become more salient as...