Miriam K Forbes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3439063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam K Forbes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam K |
| FAMILY NAME | Forbes |
| SIGNATURE | FORBES M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6954-3818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The relationship between brain structure and general psychopathology in preadolescents
BACKGROUND: An emerging body of literature has indicated that broad, transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology are associated with alterations in brain structure across the life span. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between brain structure and broad dimensions of psychopathology in the critical preadolescent period when psychopathology is emerging. METHODS: (n = 11,875; age range = 9-10 years; male = 52.2%). General ps…
On Unreplicable Inferences in Psychopathology Symptom Networks and the Importance of Unreliable Parameter Estimates
We recently wrote an article comparing the conclusions that followed from two different approaches to quantifying the reliability and replicability of psychopathology symptom networks. Two commentaries on the article have raised five core criticisms, which are addressed in this response with supporting evidence. 1) We did not over-generalize about the replicability of symptom networks, but rather focused on interpreting the contradictory conclusi…
Quantifying the Reliability and Replicability of Psychopathology Network Characteristics
Pairwise Markov random field networks—including Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) and Ising models—have become the “state-of-the-art” method for psychopathology network analyses. Recent research has focused on the reliability and replicability of these networks. In the present study, we compared the existing suite of methods for maximizing and quantifying the stability and consistency of PMRF networks (i.e., lasso regularization, plus the bootnet …
Assessing Functional Impairment in Youth
Longitudinal Associations between Coping Strategies and Psychopathology in Pre-adolescence
Testing a concurrent model of social anxiety in preadolescence
Social anxiety is a common mental disorder with an average age of onset in early adolescence. Current theories focus largely on risk factors that are present from early in life, but reasons for onset of the disorder as youth move into adolescence are rarely discussed. We recently proposed a model of the onset of certain mental disorders during the adolescent years based on characteristics of adolescent development. While this model will require l…
Evidence that Different Types of Peer Victimization have Equivalent Associations with Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in Adolescence
Adolescent development and risk for the onset of social-emotional disorders
Examining differential item functioning of social interaction and performance fears in people with hazardous alcohol consumption and probable alcohol dependence
Background: A growing body of evidence has highlighted the significant relationship between social anxiety disorder and hazardous alcohol consumption, harmful use, and alcohol use disorder. This relationship may influence the reporting of fear and avoidance of social or performance situations on common self-report measures among individuals with hazardous alcohol use or dependence.Method: The current study utilized modern psychometric methods, na…
The Moderating Role of Sleep in the Relationship Between Social Isolation and Internalising Problems in Early Adolescence
Depression, Anxiety, and Peer Victimization
Evidence that Relationship Quality, Social Support, and SSRI Use Do Not Account for the Shared Underlying Relationships among Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Female Sexual Dysfunction
Recent research has suggested that the shared characteristics and co-occurrence among depression, anxiety, and female sexual dysfunction may represent a shared underlying liability (i.e., the internalizing spectrum, which traditionally accounts for the overlap between depression and anxiety in psychopathology research). To date, however, whether common covariates shared by these symptom domains might instead account for the interrelationships has…
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)
A Place for Sexual Dysfunctions in an Empirical Taxonomy of Psychopathology
Sexual dysfunctions commonly co-occur with various depressive and anxiety disorders. An emerging framework for understanding the classification of mental disorders suggests that such comorbidity is a manifestation of underlying dimensions of psychopathology (or "spectra"). In this review, we synthesize the evidence that sexual dysfunctions should be included in the empirical taxonomy of psychopathology as part of the internalizing spectrum, which…
Sexual Quality of Life and Aging
Unlike other life domains, sexual quality of life (SQoL) has a negative relationship with age. This study disentangled the effect of age in this relationship from confounding sociocultural influences (e.g., the period of time in which data were collected, and cohort differences) and aimed to understand the roles of other sexual domains (i.e., frequency, perceived control, thought and effort invested in sex, and number of sexual partners). We anal…
Where Do Sexual Dysfunctions Fit into the Meta-Structure of Psychopathology? A Factor Mixture Analysis
Mental Health and Wellbeing of Older Workers in Australia
Population ageing has catalyzed worldwide social and political reform to encourage continued work and delayed retirement. These changes necessitate an understanding of the impact of working later in life on mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of age and work force status (working full time, part time, or retired) with mental health and wellbeing in Australian men and women past the average retirement…
A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of the Relationships between Depression, Anxiety, and Sexual Problems over Time
Sexual dysfunctions are related to depressive and anxiety disorders, but the nature of these relationships remains unclear. This study examined the relationship among symptoms of these disorders over time by comparing (a) a model that included causal relationships, (b) a model that accounted for change over time with a shared underlying factor (or latent liability) among all the disorders, and (c) a model that conceptualized sexual dysfunctions a…
Critical Flaws in the Female Sexual Function Index and the International Index of Erectile Function
The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI; Rosen et al., 2000 ) and International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF; Rosen et al., 1997 ) are two of the most widely used measures of sexual dysfunction. However, they have potential measurement and psychometric flaws that have not been addressed in the literature. This article examines the measurement capabilities of these measures based on data collected from an online study in 2010. A convenience sam…
Are Sexual Problems a Form of Internalizing Psychopathology? A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
How Does Public Management Affect Government Performance? Findings from International Research
Despite the growing importance of public management reform around the world, relatively little scholarship evaluates the contributions of public management to government performance, that is, to the character and consequences of service provision by public agencies. One study (Hill and Lynn 2005) evaluated over eight hundred American empirical studies that address issues of public management effectiveness in a wide variety of fields, subfields, a…
Sexual Quality of Life and Aging
Unlike other life domains, sexual quality of life (SQoL) has a negative relationship with age. This study disentangled the effect of age in this relationship from confounding sociocultural influences (e.g., the period of time in which data were collected, and cohort differences) and aimed to understand the roles of other sexual domains (i.e., frequency, perceived control, thought and effort invested in sex, and number of sexual partners). We anal…
Depression, Anxiety, and Peer Victimization
How Does Public Management Affect Government Performance? Findings from International Research
Despite the growing importance of public management reform around the world, relatively little scholarship evaluates the contributions of public management to government performance, that is, to the character and consequences of service provision by public agencies. One study (Hill and Lynn 2005) evaluated over eight hundred American empirical studies that address issues of public management effectiveness in a wide variety of fields, subfields, a…
Critical Flaws in the Female Sexual Function Index and the International Index of Erectile Function
The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI; Rosen et al., 2000 ) and International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF; Rosen et al., 1997 ) are two of the most widely used measures of sexual dysfunction. However, they have potential measurement and psychometric flaws that have not been addressed in the literature. This article examines the measurement capabilities of these measures based on data collected from an online study in 2010. A convenience sam…
A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of the Relationships between Depression, Anxiety, and Sexual Problems over Time
Sexual dysfunctions are related to depressive and anxiety disorders, but the nature of these relationships remains unclear. This study examined the relationship among symptoms of these disorders over time by comparing (a) a model that included causal relationships, (b) a model that accounted for change over time with a shared underlying factor (or latent liability) among all the disorders, and (c) a model that conceptualized sexual dysfunctions a…
Are Sexual Problems a Form of Internalizing Psychopathology? A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
A Place for Sexual Dysfunctions in an Empirical Taxonomy of Psychopathology
Sexual dysfunctions commonly co-occur with various depressive and anxiety disorders. An emerging framework for understanding the classification of mental disorders suggests that such comorbidity is a manifestation of underlying dimensions of psychopathology (or "spectra"). In this review, we synthesize the evidence that sexual dysfunctions should be included in the empirical taxonomy of psychopathology as part of the internalizing spectrum, which…
Longitudinal Associations between Coping Strategies and Psychopathology in Pre-adolescence
Evidence that Different Types of Peer Victimization have Equivalent Associations with Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in Adolescence
Where Do Sexual Dysfunctions Fit into the Meta-Structure of Psychopathology? A Factor Mixture Analysis
Mental Health and Wellbeing of Older Workers in Australia
Population ageing has catalyzed worldwide social and political reform to encourage continued work and delayed retirement. These changes necessitate an understanding of the impact of working later in life on mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of age and work force status (working full time, part time, or retired) with mental health and wellbeing in Australian men and women past the average retirement…
How Does Public Management Affect Government Performance? Findings from International Research
Despite the growing importance of public management reform around the world, relatively little scholarship evaluates the contributions of public management to government performance, that is, to the character and consequences of service provision by public agencies. One study (Hill and Lynn 2005) evaluated over eight hundred American empirical studies that address issues of public management effectiveness in a wide variety of fields, subfields, a…
Are Sexual Problems a Form of Internalizing Psychopathology? A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
Critical Flaws in the Female Sexual Function Index and the International Index of Erectile Function
The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI; Rosen et al., 2000 ) and International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF; Rosen et al., 1997 ) are two of the most widely used measures of sexual dysfunction. However, they have potential measurement and psychometric flaws that have not been addressed in the literature. This article examines the measurement capabilities of these measures based on data collected from an online study in 2010. A convenience sam…
Mental Health and Wellbeing of Older Workers in Australia
Population ageing has catalyzed worldwide social and political reform to encourage continued work and delayed retirement. These changes necessitate an understanding of the impact of working later in life on mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of age and work force status (working full time, part time, or retired) with mental health and wellbeing in Australian men and women past the average retirement…
A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis of the Relationships between Depression, Anxiety, and Sexual Problems over Time
Sexual dysfunctions are related to depressive and anxiety disorders, but the nature of these relationships remains unclear. This study examined the relationship among symptoms of these disorders over time by comparing (a) a model that included causal relationships, (b) a model that accounted for change over time with a shared underlying factor (or latent liability) among all the disorders, and (c) a model that conceptualized sexual dysfunctions a…
Sexual Quality of Life and Aging
Unlike other life domains, sexual quality of life (SQoL) has a negative relationship with age. This study disentangled the effect of age in this relationship from confounding sociocultural influences (e.g., the period of time in which data were collected, and cohort differences) and aimed to understand the roles of other sexual domains (i.e., frequency, perceived control, thought and effort invested in sex, and number of sexual partners). We anal…
Where Do Sexual Dysfunctions Fit into the Meta-Structure of Psychopathology? A Factor Mixture Analysis
The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)
A Place for Sexual Dysfunctions in an Empirical Taxonomy of Psychopathology
Sexual dysfunctions commonly co-occur with various depressive and anxiety disorders. An emerging framework for understanding the classification of mental disorders suggests that such comorbidity is a manifestation of underlying dimensions of psychopathology (or "spectra"). In this review, we synthesize the evidence that sexual dysfunctions should be included in the empirical taxonomy of psychopathology as part of the internalizing spectrum, which…
Adolescent development and risk for the onset of social-emotional disorders
Examining differential item functioning of social interaction and performance fears in people with hazardous alcohol consumption and probable alcohol dependence
Background: A growing body of evidence has highlighted the significant relationship between social anxiety disorder and hazardous alcohol consumption, harmful use, and alcohol use disorder. This relationship may influence the reporting of fear and avoidance of social or performance situations on common self-report measures among individuals with hazardous alcohol use or dependence.Method: The current study utilized modern psychometric methods, na…
The Moderating Role of Sleep in the Relationship Between Social Isolation and Internalising Problems in Early Adolescence
Depression, Anxiety, and Peer Victimization
Evidence that Relationship Quality, Social Support, and SSRI Use Do Not Account for the Shared Underlying Relationships among Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, and Female Sexual Dysfunction
Recent research has suggested that the shared characteristics and co-occurrence among depression, anxiety, and female sexual dysfunction may represent a shared underlying liability (i.e., the internalizing spectrum, which traditionally accounts for the overlap between depression and anxiety in psychopathology research). To date, however, whether common covariates shared by these symptom domains might instead account for the interrelationships has…
Testing a concurrent model of social anxiety in preadolescence
Social anxiety is a common mental disorder with an average age of onset in early adolescence. Current theories focus largely on risk factors that are present from early in life, but reasons for onset of the disorder as youth move into adolescence are rarely discussed. We recently proposed a model of the onset of certain mental disorders during the adolescent years based on characteristics of adolescent development. While this model will require l…
Evidence that Different Types of Peer Victimization have Equivalent Associations with Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in Adolescence
On Unreplicable Inferences in Psychopathology Symptom Networks and the Importance of Unreliable Parameter Estimates
We recently wrote an article comparing the conclusions that followed from two different approaches to quantifying the reliability and replicability of psychopathology symptom networks. Two commentaries on the article have raised five core criticisms, which are addressed in this response with supporting evidence. 1) We did not over-generalize about the replicability of symptom networks, but rather focused on interpreting the contradictory conclusi…
Quantifying the Reliability and Replicability of Psychopathology Network Characteristics
Pairwise Markov random field networks—including Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) and Ising models—have become the “state-of-the-art” method for psychopathology network analyses. Recent research has focused on the reliability and replicability of these networks. In the present study, we compared the existing suite of methods for maximizing and quantifying the stability and consistency of PMRF networks (i.e., lasso regularization, plus the bootnet …
Assessing Functional Impairment in Youth
Longitudinal Associations between Coping Strategies and Psychopathology in Pre-adolescence
The relationship between brain structure and general psychopathology in preadolescents
BACKGROUND: An emerging body of literature has indicated that broad, transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology are associated with alterations in brain structure across the life span. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between brain structure and broad dimensions of psychopathology in the critical preadolescent period when psychopathology is emerging. METHODS: (n = 11,875; age range = 9-10 years; male = 52.2%). General ps…
Psychology (20 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Psychopathology (11 works) · Anxiety (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (7 works) · Sexual function and dysfunction studies (7 works)