Publications by authors named "Alex Torstrick"

The Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB; Rotter, Lah, & Rafferty, 1992) is a sentence completion test intended to detect psychological maladjustment. To investigate the construct validity of the measure, we investigated what aspects of personality and psychopathology are correlated with the RISB and also tested the incremental validity of the RISB in a combined sample of clinical (n = 72) and undergraduate participants (n = 69). Interrater reliability of the RISB was good (intraclass correlation > .

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Research suggests that ostracism increases susceptibility to indirect forms of social influence (e.g., conformity).

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Purpose: To investigate the extent to which cues are reported to be associated with urinary urgency incontinence and urinary urgency.

Design: Descriptive and correlational study comparing 2 groups.

Methods: An online questionnaire assessing the extent to which 19 environmental, 3 mood, 3 cognitive, 3 stress incontinence, 1 bladder volume cue, and 3 unlikely cues were associated with episodes of urinary urgency incontinence and urgency was administered.

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