Walt Scott

Biography

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Measure Your Personality Here!

Classes Taught

• Psychology 545: Adult Assessment and Therapy Practicum

Research Interests

• Applications of Personality Science to Personality Assessment
• Social Cognitive Approaches to Personality/Psychopathology

Our lab is interested in applying personality science, particularly social cognitive theory, to developing new methods of personality assessment.  We are also interested in the role of social cognitive personality variables—temperament, self-schemata, goal and personal/moral standard systems—in different forms of psychopathology, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Representative Publications (*Denotes Student Authors):

• Scott, W. D., *Adams, D., *Sangeorzan, P. C., *Lujan, C., & **Serrano, A.  (in press).  Social cognitive personality assessment: Measures for clinical case conceptualization. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice.
• *Paup, S., Scott, W. D, & *Lin, B. (in press). Personalized cognitive behavioral therapy informed by a social cognitive personality assessment: A single case study.  Journal of Personality Assessment.
• Scott, W. D., Cervone, D., & Ebiringah, O. U. (2024).  The social-cognitive clinician: On the implications of social cognitive theory for psychotherapy and assessment.  International Journal of Psychology, 59(5), 616-623.
• Scott, W. D., *Paup, S., & Kirchhoff, C. (2022).  Clinical application of social cognitive theory: A novel personality assessment procedure and a case study of personality coherence.  European Journal of Personality, 36, 371-390.
• Scott, W. D., Penningroth, S. L., *Paup, S., Li, X., Adams, D., & *Mallory, B. (2022).  The Relational Self-Schema Measure: Assessing psychological needs in multiple self-with-other representations.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 21, 317-338
• *McDougall, K. H., & Scott, W. D. (2021).  The Self-Efficacy for Parenting Adolescents Scale: Development and Initial Validation.  Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30(9), 2289-2302.
• Scott, W. D., & Cervone, D. (2016).  Social cognitive personality assessment: A case conceptualization procedure and illustration.  Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 23, 79-98.
• Scott, W. D., Clapp, J., *Mileviciute, I., & *Mousseau, A.  (2016).  Children’s Depression Inventory: A Unidimensional Factor Structure for American Indian and Alaskan Native Youth.  Psychological Assessment, 28, 81-91.
• *Mousseau, A. C., Scott, W. D., & Estes, D. (2014). Values and depressive symptoms in American Indian youth of the Northern Plains: Examining the potential moderating roles of outcome expectancies and perceived community values. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43 (3), 426-436
• Scott, W. D. & Dearing, E. C. (2012).  Academic self-efficacy, theories of intelligence, ethnic identity, and depression: A longitudinal study with American Indian youth. Development and Psychopathology, 24, 607-622.
• Penningroth, S. L., Scott, W. D., & *Freuen, M.  (2011). Social motivation in prospective memory:  Higher importance ratings and reported performance rates for social tasks.  Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65 (1), 3-11.
• Beevers, C. G., Scott, W. D., McGeary, C., & McGeary, J. E. (2009).  Negative Cognitive Response to a Sad Mood Induction: Associations with Polymorphisms of the Serotonin Transporter (5-HTTLPR) Gene.  Cognition and Emotion, 23 (4), 726-738.