Validating Psychometric Questionnaires Using Experience-Sampling Data: The Case of Nightmare Distress
Frontiers in Neuroscience December 5, 2018 Stefan Stieger, T. Kuhlmann
Nightmares are a comparatively frequent phenomenon. They are often accompanied by emotional distress and gain clinical relevance when recurrent. To assess how much distress nightmares cause the individual, the Nightmare Distress Questionnaire (NDQ, Belicki, 1992) is probably the most often used measure. However, its validity is still disputed. To analyze the validity of the proposed three NDQ...