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dc.contributor.authorWackers, Ger
dc.contributor.authorSchille-Rognmo, Marthe
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-08T10:19:16Z
dc.date.available2022-08-08T10:19:16Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-29
dc.description.abstractMental health surveys of general populations use psychometric instruments derived from psychiatric symptom checklists and assessment scales. Mental health surveys of this type have become so ubiquitous and influential that the psychometric methods that are at the heart of them seem to be beyond reproach. Are these the right tools to do the job of capturing the minds of general populations? This article pursues a critical assessment of psychometric instruments embedded in mental health surveys through a historical reconstruction of the major epistemic shifts in the investigative practices through which these psychometric instruments developed. The reconstruction traces a strong influence of physics and physicists’ notion of fundamental measurement of quantities on psychologists’ attempts to measure mental phenomena. Surveys employing these instruments inherit unresolved methodological issues from their psychophysical predecessors: problems of causal inference from mathematical abstractions (correlations) and reification of mental entities from theoretical concepts.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWackers, Schille-Rognmo. Capturing minds. Towards a methods critique of questionnaire-based mental health surveys.. Theory & psychology. 2022en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2036414
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/09593543221104734
dc.identifier.issn0959-3543
dc.identifier.issn1461-7447
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/26012
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.relation.journalTheory & psychology
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleCapturing minds. Towards a methods critique of questionnaire-based mental health surveys.en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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