Objective To explore the relationship between adaptive skills and intelligence in young children. Method 30 young children aged from 3 to 6 years were concurrently administered the Adaptive Skill Rating Scale for Young Children(ASRSYC) and China- Wechsler Young Chilren Scale of Intelligence(C -WYCSI). Result The correlation coefficients between the total score of ASRSYC and the verbal scale score , performance scale score and full scale score of C - WYCSI were 0. 85, 0.70and 0. 81, respectively. The corrdlations between the total score of ASRSYC and the subtest scores of C - WYCSI ranged from 0. 51 to 0. 75 . Conclusion Adaptive skills and intelligenoe in young children relate each other and develop jointly.

In the past century there have been major advances in the development of clinical psychology. The article discusses separately the present status and developmental trends of research, training, and practice of clinical psychology. It also offers a projective view on the development of clinical psychology both in China and abroad.

Objective To explore the factors that influence the quality of life of patients with chronic pain.Methods Using serf-designed questionnaire,simple MiGill pain questionnaire,Beck depression inventory,Beck anxiety inventory,pain self-efficiency questionnaire,athens insomnia scale and SF-12 scale to investigate 114 health people and 139 patients with chronic pain,and analyze the data with analysis of variance and linear regression analysis and path analysis.Results Scores of anxiety(33.56±9.96),depression(17.14±11.22),and insomnia(13.19±6.14)in patients with chronic pain was significant higher(P＜0.01)than the health people (24.55±4.49,24.55±4.49,3.68±3.12 independently),and scores of pain self-control and quality of life(including physical health and mental health)scored lower(P＜0.01)than the health group.Scores of quality of life in chronic pain patients with different pain intensity(F=3.92,P=0.005)and different ache numbers(F=2.39,P=0.041)were significant different,while scores of quality of life in chronic pain patients with different ache frequency was not significant different(F=1.54,P=0.169);quality of life score was significantly correlated(P＜0.05)to the total pain(r=-0.383),the feeling pain(r=-0.315),the emotion pain(r=-0.434),pain selfcontrol(r=0.570),anxiety(r=-0.640),depression(r=-0.523)and insomnia(r=-0.508).Pain self-control,depression,anxiety and insomnia insomnia and depression may indirectly influence the chronic pain patient's quality of life through pain self-control,and insomnia also can affect the quality of life through depression.Conclusion The quality of life in patients with chronic pain was influenced by a number of factors,so it is necessary to take muhi-faceted interventions to improve their quality of life.

Objective:To re-explore and confirm the construct of the Adolescent Self-rating Life Events Checklist (ASLEC),and evaluation the reliability of it among middle school students. Methods:Totally 10 566 ad-olescents,grade 7th to grade 12th,from 10 cities were recruited to complete ASLEC by using stratified randomized cluster-sampling method. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D ),Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC)were selected as the criterion measurements which to examine the association between depression and anxiety with life events. Test-retest reliability were examined by 141 participants random se-lected after 4 weeks. Results:ASLEC including being punished,loss,relationship pressure,learning pressure and a-daption problem after explored factor analysis. The fit indices of confirmatory factor analysis were RMSEA=0. 10, CFI=0. 90,TLI=0. 88,WRMR=4. 96. The correlation coefficients of total scale with ASLEC and total score with CES-D and MASC were 0. 45 and 0. 43. The Cronbach'sαcoefficient of the total scale was 0. 92,the test-retest re-liability was 0. 73,the split-half reliability was 0. 85. The total score decreased apparently compared with the norm of Liu's study (in 1997). Compared to girls,there were significant higher score on punishment and adaption sub-scale,and significant lower score on relationship and learning pressure subscale among boys except the loss factor. Conclusion:A more reasonable new construct consists of 5 factors has been confirmed. The ASLEC has good validity and reliability. The score on total scale and subscales in this study can serve as norm references.

Objective:To compare the performance of two study samples on WAIS-Ⅲ Chinese version.Methods:A sample of 114 inpatients with schizophrenia and a sample of 114 closely-matched nonclinical adults in Mainland China were studied with the measures of WAIS-Ⅲ Chinese version.Results:The scores of patient sample exhibited significant difference from those of healthy adult sample in all three IQs and other three indices in addition to Verbal Comprehension Index(P

Objective To explore the methods for estimating premorbid intelligence of patients with cerebral infarction.Methods Ten regression equations were employed to estimate intelligence quotients (IQs) of 74 patients and 74 demographically matched,healthy adults.Those valid estimated IQs were transformed into standard scores and adopted to evaluate the difference with don' t hold' subtests.Results In the healthy group,there were trivial difference between the estimated IQs and obtained IQs with mean discrepancy less than one and the correlation coefficients between them ranged from 0.755 to 0.956.However in the patients group,the estimated IQs were significantly higher than obtained IQs with mean discrepancy of 3.20-10.67.Mean estimated IQs of the patient group were lower than those of healthy group to varing degrees with mean discrepancy of 0.83-8.28,in which the mean IQs estimated just with demographic variables showed small between group effect size of 0.26,and so did IQs estimated with combination of demographic variables and performance on the Information or Figural Matrix (effect size:0.24 and 0.38 respectively).The latter two kinds of estimated IQs were adopted and transformed into standard scores to estimate premorbid intelligence.The two kinds of estimated normal scores of intelligence were higher than normal scores of the Digit Symbol (0.70 and 0.63 respectively) and the Block Design(0.67 and 0.61 respectively)in the patients group.As regarding the healthy group,the counterparts of discrepancies between estimates of intelligence and obtained scores were 0.21,0.21,0.12 and 0.12 respectively,which were significantly smaller than those in the patients group.Conclusion IQ estimated with combination of demographic variables and performance on the Information or Figural Matrix are suggested to estimate premorbid intelligence of patients with cerebral infarction.

Objective: To explore the effects of life events, automatic thoughts, social support and coping styles on the severity of depression in major depression at discharge. Methods: A cohort of 97 major depressed in-patients was assessed at discharge. The assessment included Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), Life Events Scale, Social Support Scale, Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire and Coping Styles Questionnaire. 100 normal controls were assessed, too.Results: Compared with the controls, the patients experienced more stressful life events in the last one year(t=2.6,P

Objective:To explore the effect of emotional stress to the intra-islet apoptosis and the it's neural mechanism.Methods: Using the drinking-conflict stress and restraint stress, we investigated diabetes-prone NOD mouse's c-fos expression in it's brain and it's intra-islet apoptosis. Correlation between the two variables was also studied.Results:The average intra-islet apoptosis of the first(3.95?1.05)and the second (5.73?2.60)and third day(5.77?2.75) was higher than the control's(0.82?0.93,P

Objective: To develop a Chinese version of the Schedule for the Deficit Syndrome(SDS) and examine its reliability and validity. Methods: 123 schizophrenic patients finished the Chinese version of SDS and were subtyped into deficit (n=30) and nondeficit(n=93) groups. In addition, all patients completed BPRS, SANS and SAPS. The reliability analysis of SDS included Cronbach's ?琢 coefficients and mean inter-item correlations and the inter-rater reliability; while the validity analysis included construct validity and criteria validity. Results: The Cronbach's ?琢 coefficient and the mean interitem correlation coefficients of the negative symptoms severity subscale of SDS were 0.8441 and 0.4818, respectively. The inter-rater reliability for categorization was 0.8777. The correlation coefficients of the six negative symptom items with the total score ranged from 0.685 to 0.875,and that among the six negative symptom items ranged from 0.437 to 0.794. The negative symptom items and the total score of SDS were significantly correlated with the anergia factor score from the BPRS and the total score and several subscale scores of SANS, while none of them was correlated with subscale scores and total score of SAPS. Conclusion: The Chinese version of SDS was a reliable and valid measure for the diagnostic classification of deficit and nondeficit schizophrenia.

Objective To develop a Chinese translation of the Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire-Short Form (MASQ-SF) and evaluate the reliability and the validity in a sample of Chinese middle school students. Methods The questionnaire was administered to 682 middle school students. Internal consistency, testretest and confirmatory factor analyses were analyzed. Results The internal consistency reliability for the total scale was 0.95, and for the four factors ranged from 0.84 to 0.92 and the one month test-retest reliability coefficient for the total questionnaire was 0.78. The mean inter-item correlation coefficient for the MASQ-SF was 0.24,and the mean inter-item correlation coefficient for the four factors ranged from 0. 20 to 0.51. And the results of confirmatory factor analyses (IFI 0.91, CFI 0.92, TLI 0.91, RMSEA 0.06). The factors loadings ranged from 0. 28 to 0.71. The squared multiple correlations were 0.12 to 0.53. Indicated that the four-factor structure of the MASQ-SF was suitable for the Chinese middle school sample. Conclusion The Chinese version of the MASQ-SF with acceptable psychometric quality,and appropriate for assessing anxiety and depression in Chinese adolescence.