A Preliminary Study of Auditory Communication Developmental Scales in Infants and Toddlers With Hearing Difficulties: Reliability and Validity

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Son A Chang ◽  
Sujin Shin ◽  
Hyun Seung Kim ◽  
Hyekyung Hwang ◽  
Hyun-Young Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Infants And Toddlers ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Hearing Difficulties

Early lexical development in Spanish-speaking infants and toddlers

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Jackson-Maldonado ◽  
Donna Thal ◽  
Virginia Marchman ◽  
Elizabeth Bates ◽  
Vera Gutierrez-Clellen
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Infants And Toddlers ◽  
Personal Interview ◽  
Waiting Room ◽  
Lexical Development ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Communicative Development ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Spanish Language Acquisition

ABSTRACTThis paper describes the early lexical development of a group of 328 normal Spanish-speaking children aged 0;8 to 2;7. First the development and structure of a new parent report instrument,Inventario del Desarollo de Habilidades Communcativasis described. Then five studies carried out with the instrument are presented. In the first study vocabulary development of Spanish-speaking infants and toddlers is compared to that of English-speaking infants and toddlers. The English data were gathered using a comparable parental report, theMacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. In the second study the general characteristics of Spanish language acquisition, and the effects of various demographic factors on that process, are examined. Study 3 examines the differential effects of three methods of collecting the data (mail-in, personal interview, and clinic waiting room administration). Studies 4 and 5 document the reliability and validity of the instrument. Results show that the trajectories of development are very similar for Spanish-and English-speaking children in this age range, that children from varying social groups develop similarly, and that mail-in and personal interview administration techniques produce comparable results. Inventories administered in a medical clinic waiting room, on the otherhand, produced lower estimates of toddler vocabulary than the other two models.

Psychological Characteristics of the Obligatory Runner: A Critical Examination of the Anorexia Analogue Hypothesis

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Paul Coen ◽  
Benjamin M. Ogles
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Marathon Runners ◽  
Validity Data ◽  
Identity Diffusion ◽  
Obligatory Exercise ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
And Training ◽  
Adequate Reliability

Several aspects of obligatory running are examined with particular emphasis on the anorexia analogue hypothesis. The psychometric characteristics of the Obligatory Exercise Questionnaire were examined in a preliminary study. The OEQ is unrelated to socially desirable responding and has adequate reliability and validity. Data were collected from a second sample to identify obligatory and nonobligatory runners. Validation of the obligatory construct is examined by comparing demographic and training differences between obligatory and nonobligatory runners. Obligatory runners train more miles, days, and hours per week; have faster finishing times; are more likely to continue running when injured; and report feeling higher levels of anxiety when not running. The anorexia analogue hypothesis is examined by comparing the personality characteristics of obligatory and nonobligatory male marathon runners. Obligatory and nonobligatory runners were not significantly different on measures of identity diffusion or trait anger. They were significantly different on measures of perfectionism and trait anxiety.

A Preliminary Study to Assess Validity of the Personal Style Inventory

1985 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 903-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Ware ◽  
Charles Yokomoto ◽  
B. B. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Method ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Personality Types ◽  
Myers Briggs Type Indicator ◽  
Personal Style ◽  
Type Indicator ◽  
Myers Briggs ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Reliability Coefficients

The Personal Style Inventory was designed to assess Jungian personality types. The present study determined its reliability and validity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was used as a criterion and the multitrait-multimethod matrix method was used to assess reliability and validity. Reliability coefficients between the opposite sides of each scale were —1.00 and validity coefficients between corresponding scales of the Personal Style Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ranged between .52 and .70. The lowest validity coefficients were with Extraversion-Introversion scales. Significant differences between validity coefficients were also found between participants' congruent and incongruent scores on the Extraversion-Introversion and Judgment-Perception scales. The results suggest feasibility of using the Personal Style Inventory to assess Jung's personality types.

scholarly journals Adapting Doll Completion Story Task to Adults in the Assessment of Secure Base Scripts A Preliminary Study of Reliability and Validity

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Reflective Functioning ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Secure Base Scripts ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Preliminary Study

Secure base scripts constitute an approach providing reliable and valid measures of mental representations of attachment. Doll Completion Story Task (DCST) is a common measure in literature, tapping into attachment-related secure base scripts in children. The purpose of the current research was to conduct a preliminary reliability and validity study of Adult-DCST. In the development phase, the protocol was applied to 40 healthy adults and 20 psychiatric inpatients, and “Adult-DCST Application and Scoring Manual” was formed according to the content examinations of Adult-DCST. Following, 20 participants were randomly selected from 60 participant-pool of Adult-DCST applications. Inter-rater reliability and validity examinations were conducted among randomly-selected 20 participants (nhealthy = 9; npsychiatricinnpatient = 11). Participants with the mean age of 22.15 filled out Relationship Scales Questionnaire (RSQ), Experiences in Close Relationships-R (ECR-R), and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). Results indicated that inter-rater agreement for Reflective Functioning, Attachment, Anxiety and Avoidance dimensions of Adult-DCST were .83, .89, .79, and .83, respectively. Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficients of mentioned dimensions ranged between .79 and .85. Also, there were significant relationships between Adult-DCST dimensions and sub-scales of RSQ and ECR-R, and total scores of RSES in the expected directions. Findings suggested that Adult-DCST was a reliable measure of secure base scripts. Keywords Secure base scripts, adults, doll completion story, attachment represantations

Reliability and validity of parent-toddler interaction- multiaxial assessment (PTI-MAXA): A preliminary study

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. S281-S282
Author(s):  
K. Karabekiroglu ◽  
S.K. Orhan ◽  
I. Akman ◽  
K. Kuşçu ◽  
E. Altuncu
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Preliminary Study
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