Ronald R. Holden Professor Department of Psychology

Telephone: 613-533-2879
Fax: 613-533-2499
e-mail: holdenr at queensu.ca

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Research Interests

My research has three primary interests: (a) suicide; (b) strategies for constructing inventories of personality and psychopathology; and (c) methods for detecting lying on self-report inventories. My research on suicide concerns the roles of hopelessness and motivations in predicting suicide ideation, attempts, and completions. Studies involve both clinical and nonclinical populations. In test construction, my focus is on evaluating the best methods for writing individual test items. Research deals with psychiatric and nonpsychiatric applications. Investigations of lying examine the formulation of models of responding and the search for anomalies that indicate discrepancies (i.e., lies). Research deals with students, psychiatric patients, inmate, and job applicant populations.

Recent Publications

Holden, R. R. (2008). Underestimating the effects of faking on the validity of self-report personality scales. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 311-321.

Holden, R. R. (2007). Socially desirable responding does moderate scale validity both in experimental and in non-experimental contexts. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 39, 184-201.

Holden, R. R., & DeLisle, M. M. (2006). Factor analysis of the Reasons for Attempting Suicide Questionnaire (RASQ) in suicide attempters. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 28, 1-8.

Holden, R. R., Wasylkiw, L., Starzyk, K. B., Book, A. S., & Edwards, M. J. (2006). Inferential structure of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory: Construct validity of the Big Four personality clusters. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 38, 24-40.

Holden, R. R., & DeLisle, M. M. (2005). Factor analysis of the Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation with female suicide attempters. Assessment, 12, 231-238.

Holden, R. R., & Evoy (2005). Personality inventory faking: A four-dimensional simulation of dissimulation. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 1307-1318.