1. A grade-six reading level key for the multiple affect adjective check list-revised
- Author
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Bernard Lubin, Melinda R. Rea, and Rodney Van Whitlock
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,Psychometrics ,Adolescent ,Personality Inventory ,050109 social psychology ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Hostility ,Affect (psychology) ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,education ,Communication ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Mood Disorders ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,Reproducibility of Results ,Middle Aged ,Mental health ,Sensory Systems ,Mood ,Reading ,Educational Status ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Personality Assessment Inventory ,Adjective check list ,Psychology ,business ,0503 education ,Adjective ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Data from samples of College Students (n = 433), Adolescents (n = 746), and a community mental health center sample (Outpatients) (n = 202) were rescored using a scoring key that consisted of adjectives from the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised at or below the Grade 4 reading level (MAACL-R4). Factor analyses showed that, unlike the MAACL-R, a three-factor structure (Positive Affect 4, Anxious Depression 4, and Hostility 4) best described the 38 Grade 4 adjectives on the MAACL-R4. Estimates of reliability (internal consistency and test-retest) for each scale were acceptable. Correlations between scores on MAACL-R4 and four Self-rating Mood Scales showed expected convergent and discriminant validities. Also, patterns of means among the three groups could differentiate the nonreferred from referred samples.
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- 1995