Scale Development: Theory and Applications

Robert F. DeVellis is Research Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (School of Public Health), and the Psychology Department (College of Arts and Sciences) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, he is a Core Faculty Member for UNC′s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (School of Medicine). Dr. DeVellis is also Director of the Measurement and Methods Core of the UNC Center on Minority Aging and Associate Director of the UNC Arthritis Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center, where he also is a member of that center′s Methodology Core. He has served on the Board of Directors for the American Psychological Association′s Division of Health Psychology (38), on the Arthritis Foundations′ Clinical/Outcomes/therapeutics Research Study Section, and on the Advisory Board of the Veterans Affairs Measurement Excellence Initiative. He has served on the editorial boards of Arthritis Care and ResearchandHealth Education Researchand as Guest Editor, Guest Associate Editor, or reviewer for more than two dozen other journals. His current research interests include examining interpersonal factors that facilitate adaptation to chronic illness and measuring social and behavioral variables related to health and illness. He has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator since the early 1980s on a series of research projects funded by the federal government and private foundations.