Psychometrics and Scale Development

Psychometrics and Survey Development methods are used to develop measures of mental and behavioral health constructs in large-scale studies. Psychometrics can assess how numerous individual symptoms or behaviors are related to each other and group them under common domains.

• Dr. Justin Luningham
• Dr. Eun-Young Mun
• Dr. Andrew Yockey

• Schnarrs, P. W., Dorri, A. A., Yockey, R. A., Stone, A. L., Russell, S. T., & Rosenberger, J. G. (2023). The sexual and gender minority adverse childhood experiences scale. American journal of preventive medicine
• Ahmadi, A., Galusha, J. M., Ponder, W. N., Carbajal, J., Schuman, D. L., Whitworth, J., & Yockey, R. A. (2023). Validation of the PCL-5, PHQ-9, and GAD-7 in a Sample of First Responders. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 65(6), 467-476.
• Ahmadi, A., Ponder, W. N., Carbajal, J., Schuman, D. L., Whitworth, J., Yockey, R. A., & Galusha, J. M. (2023). Validation of the PCL-5, PHQ-9, and GAD-7 in a Sample of Veterans. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 65(8), 643-654.
• Huo, Y., de la Torre, J., Mun, E.-Y., Kim, S.-Y., Ray, A. E., Jiao, Y., & White, H. R. (2015). A
• hierarchical multi-unidimensional IRT approach for analyzing sparse, multi-group data for integrative data analysis. Psychometrika, 80(3), 834-855.
• Luningham JM, McArtor DB, Bartels M, Boomsma DI, Lubke GH. Sum Scores in Twin Growth Curve Models: Practicality Versus Bias. Behav Genet. 2017 Sep;47(5):516-536. doi: 10.1007/s10519-017-9864-0
• Luningham JM, Hendriks AM, Krapohl E, Fung Ip H, van Beijsterveldt CEM, Lundström S, Vuoksimaa E, Korhonen T, Lichtenstein P, Plomin R, Pulkkinen L, Rose RJ, Kaprio J, Bartels M, Boomsma DI, Lubke GH. Harmonizing behavioral outcomes across studies, raters, and countries: application to the genetic analysis of aggression in the ACTION Consortium. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2020 Jul;61(7):807-817. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13188
• Mun, E.-Y., Huo, Y., White, H. R., Suzuki, S., & de la Torre, J. (2019). Multivariate higher-order IRT model and MCMC algorithm for linking individual participant data from multiple studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1328.
• Stryker, S. D., Pallerla, H., Yockey, R. A., Bedard-Thomas, J., & Pickle, S. (2022). Training mental health professionals in gender-affirming care: A survey of experienced clinicians. Transgender Health, 7(1), 68-77.
• Stryker, S. D., Andrew Yockey, R., Rabin, J., Vaughn, L. M., & Jacquez, F. (2021). How Do We Measure Stress in Latinos in the United States? A Systematic Review. Health Equity, 5(1), 338-344.
• Tan, Z., de la Torre, J., Ma, W., Huh, D., Larimer, M. E., & Mun, E.-Y. (2022). A tutorial on
• cognitive diagnosis modeling for characterizing mental health symptom pro_les using existing item responses. Prevention Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-022-01346-8.
• Waldman ID, Poore HE, Luningham JM, Yang J. Testing structural models of psychopathology at the genomic level. World Psychiatry. 2020 Oct;19(3):350-359. doi: 10.1002/wps.20772
• Yockey, R. A., Nabors, L. A., Oluwoye, O., Welker, K., & Hardee, A. M. (2017). College students’ perceptions of worry and parent beliefs: associations with behaviors to prevent sun exposure. Journal of Skin Cancer, 2017.