Patrick E. Shrout

Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability.

Reliability coefficients often take the form of intraclass correlation coefficients. In this article, guidelines are given for choosing among six different forms of the intracla...

Nonspecific Psychological Distress and Other Dimensions of Psychopathology

This interview study investigated nonspecific psychological distress in the general population. A probability sample of 200 adults was drawn from heterogenous sex, class, and et...

Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations.

Mediation is said to occur when a causal effect of some variable X on an outcome Y is explained by some intervening variable M. The authors recommend that with small to moderate...

Symptoms, hassles, social supports, and life events: Problem of confounded measures.

A Modified Labeling Theory Approach to Mental Disorders: An Empirical Assessment

Critics of labeling theory vigorously dispute Scheff's (1966) provocative etiological hypothesis and downplay the importance of factors such as stigma and stereotyping. We propo...

The Prevalence of Specific Psychiatric Disorders in Puerto Rico

An epidemiologic survey of the lifetime and six-month prevalence rates of several psychiatric disorders was conducted in Puerto Rico. This study, carried out in 1984, applied se...