Further Report on Validation of the Personal Attribute Inventory

1976 ◽  
Vol 42 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1256-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Parish ◽  
William T. Bryant ◽  
Annmarie Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Personal Attribute ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Smoking

College students' attitudes toward smoking and changes in attitudes were assessed with the Personal Attribute Inventory, which is composed of 50 negative and 50 positive adjectives from Gough's Adjective Check List. Common sense quality of the data, including the change in attitude after passage of a law against smoking in elevators suggests the usefulness of the inventory.

Measuring Need to Achieve by n Ach-n Aff Scale—A Forced-Choice Questionnaire

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 907-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Clay Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Need For Affiliation ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Expectant Mothers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Bank Tellers

To measure the need to achieve (n Ach), a questionnaire was constructed which required the subject to make a forced choice on each of 30 pairs of adjectives. Half the adjectives were based on the Need for Achievement scale and the other half on the Need for Affiliation scale of Gough's Adjective Check List. When the questionnaire was scored in the n Ach direction, differences between sex and age groupings of college students were negligible and nonsignificant, but scores for males were positively and significantly correlated with grades on midterms and GPA, whereas correlations for female students were low, positive, and significant only at the 10% level. Bank tellers' n Ach scores correlated positively with supervisors' ratings and were significantly lower than those of college students. Expectant mothers were the lowest scoring group on n Ach, while male Chinese-speaking immigrants under 30 scored the highest. Results were considered to be consistent with previous research and with expectations based on common sense and everyday impressions.

The Personal Attribute Inventory as a Self Concept Scale: A Preliminary Report

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1141-1142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Parish ◽  
Gerald M. Eads ◽  
David E. Adams
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Personal Attribute ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Female College ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Self-concept scores on the 100-item Personal Attribute Inventory of 6 male and 36 female college students were significantly correlated (.80) with their scores on the 75-item “Unfavorable” subscale and (—.73) on the 75-item “Favorable” subscale of the Adjective Check List. In a second study with 16 males and 34 females, 4-wk. test-retest reliability for the inventory was .83.

Modifying the Personal Attribute Inventory: An Alternative Way to Assess Self-Concepts

1988 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-74
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Parish
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personal Attribute ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Lower Test

Since choosing 30 words that best describe a target from 50 positive and 50 negative words on the Personal Attribute Inventory may have been artificially restrictive, in the present study 58 college students chose as many adjectives as appropriate; the score was proportionally adjusted according to the number of adjectives checked. Subjects' positive and negative scores were significantly correlated with scores on the favorable subscale (.31) and the unfavorable subscale (.59), respectively, of the parent scale, the Gough (1952) Adjective Check List. Test-retest correlations on the revised version for positive (.65) and negative (.65) scores were significant. Lower test-retest correlations were obtained for the favorable subscale (.35) and the unfavorable subscale (.43) of Gough's check list. Implications are discussed.

Additional Validity Data for the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List—Revised

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
John Cain ◽  
Rodney Van Whitlock
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Validity Data ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Affect Adjective

The correlations of scores on the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List—Revised with selected scales of the Adjective Check List for 43 college students are presented. The pattern of significant intercorrelations adds to the knowledge of validity for the MAACL—R.

The Personal Attribute Inventory

1976 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 715-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Parish ◽  
William T. Bryant ◽  
Annmarie Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
Target Stimulus ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Personal Attribute ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List

The Personal Attribute Inventory is a scale that should prove applicable to a broad range of interpersonal assessments. There are 50 positive and 50 negative adjectives from Gough's (1952) Adjective Check List from which subjects are instructed to select 30 which are most descriptive of the target group or person in question. Using the term “Negroes” as the target stimulus on three different occasions, this scale's test-retest reliabilities were .904, .94, and .95. Its criterion-related validity with the Westie scale was .46 ( p < .001) and with the Ewens checklist was .55 and .66 ( p < .01, < .001, respectively). Further application is needed to assess the usefulness of this procedure.

Construction of Validity Scales for the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Van Whitlock ◽  
Bernard Lubin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Fake Good ◽  
Good Scale ◽  
Affect Adjective

Three scales, the Fake Bad Scale, the Fake Good Scale, and the Fake Bad-Fake Good scales were developed and evaluated with respect to their capacity to detect response manipulation on the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised. Cutting scores for each scale were cross-validated in two samples consisting of three groups: (1) college students simulating either “fake good” or “fake bad,” (2) college students under standard instructions, and (3) psychiatric patients. Cutting scores on the three scales were compared with cutting scores established for the MAACL–R Dysphoria and Positive Affect plus Sensation Seeking. Analysis indicated that these scales were more accurate than the Positive Affect plus Sensation Seeking and the Dysphoria scales in detecting response manipulation.

The Thayer Scale Response Patterns of Type a and Type b College Students

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (3_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 1167-1170
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hicks ◽  
Tonja Green ◽  
Jerayr Haleblian
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Type A ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Type B ◽  
Activation Pattern ◽  
Check List ◽  
High Activation ◽  
Activation Patterns ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Scale Response

Using Thayer's Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List, the activation patterns of 95 Type A and 105 Type B college students were measured. The pattern of the group means suggests that Type A students are higher than Type B students on both energy and tension activation. When the responses of individuals were examined, the Type A students were 2.5 times more likely to exhibit this high activation pattern than was the case for the Type B students.

Ego States and Preference for Humor

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 1031-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Donald Kelly ◽  
Deborah Osborne
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Transactional Analysis ◽  
Check List ◽  
Sense Of Humor ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Ego States ◽  
Nurturant Parent

This study investigated the extent to which college students' preference for humor could be predicted by ego states derived from Transactional Analysis. Scores on The Adjective Check List determined the ego states of Nurturant Parent, Critical Parent, Adult, Free Child, and Adapted Child. Preferences for nonsense, ethnic, and sexual humor were measured by scores on the Antioch Sense of Humor Inventory. A step-wise multiple regression, used to test the predictive power of the ego states, indicated that the Critical Parent ego state had a strong negative evaluation of nonsense humor, while the Free Child and Adapted Child were the strongest predictors of negative evaluation of ethnic humor. Categories of Critical Parent and Adapted Child provided the strongest prediction of positive preference for sexual humor.

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