Psychometric Properties of the Grade 4 Reading Level Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised with Offenders

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Van Whitlock ◽  
Bernard Lubin
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Affect Adjective

The reliability and validity of the Grade 4 reading level Multiple Affect Adjective Check List was assessed with offenders in four settings within the criminal justice system. With the exception of the Sensation Seeking Scale, the MAACL-R4 scales showed good internal consistency and test-retest reliability and adequate convergent and discriminant validity, but not for the Depression scale for 53 female arrestees and the Hostility scale with 51 male arrestees. Correlations with self-ratings of health and stress and with the Family Environment scales were in expected directions. It is concluded that the MAACL-R4 has the basic qualities necessary for use in research with offenders.

Additional Study of the Youth–Depression Adjective Check List

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Kay Cameron ◽  
Rodney Van Whitlock ◽  
Michael P. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
The State ◽  
Check List ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Youth Depression ◽  
Preliminary Information ◽  
Affect Adjective

Replicated and extended aspects of determinations of reliability and validity for the State version of the Youth-Depression Adjective Check List. Students from Grades 9 through 12 (64 girls and 41 boys) completed the State version and the Adolescent Activities Checklist on each of 12 consecutive days and completed the Trait version, the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale, the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List–Revised Grade 6, and the Adolescent Activities Checklist at the beginning and the end of the study. Good reliability and validity of the State version were confirmed and extended, and preliminary information on characteristics of the Trait version of the Youth–Depression Adjective Check List also was presented. The State version seems suitable for use in research with adolescents and preadolescents. More study of the Trait version is recommended.

Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Selected Need Scales from the Adjective Check List and Personality Research Form

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary A. Bessmer ◽  
Nerella V. Ramanaiah
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Partial Support ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Matrix Design

Using the multitrait-multimethod matrix design, convergent and discriminant validity was investigated for the scales measuring the nine manifest needs which are commonly assessed by the Adjective Check List and Personality Research Form: achievement, aggression, autonomy, dominance, endurance, exhibition, nurturance, and order. The multitrait-multimethod matrix of intercorrelations among the various need scales from the two inventories was evaluated by Campbell and Fiske's (1959) criteria, separately for 85 men and 103 women. Results provided empirical evidence supporting the convergent and discriminant validity for the scales of aggression, autonomy, dominance, and exhibition for both sex groups. In addition, convergent and discriminant validity was also found for the order scales for the men and for the nurturance scales for the women. These results provided only partial support for Fiske's (1973) conclusion that there was no empirical support for the inter-changeability of the various need scales.

Discriminant validity of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List - revised

1986 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Zuckerman ◽  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Christine M. Rinck ◽  
Stanley M. Soliday ◽  
William L. Albott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Affect Adjective

A Grade Four Reading Level Key for the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Rodney Van Whitlock
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health Center ◽  
Mental Health Center ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Check List ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Affect Adjective ◽  
Three Factor

Data from samples of College Students ( n = 433), Adolescents ( n = 746), and a community mental health center sample (Outpatients) ( n = 202) were re-scored 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.

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.

Reliability and validity of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List - Revised

1986 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Marvin Zuckerman ◽  
Philip G. Hanson ◽  
Terry Armstrong ◽  
Christine M. Rinck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Affect Adjective

Measuring Depressive Mood in Elderly Israeli: Reliability and Validity of the Depression Adjective Check Lists

1991 ◽  
Vol 68 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1311-1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Lomranz ◽  
Nitza Eyal ◽  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Alik Joffe
Keyword(s):  
Depression Scale ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
The State ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Reliability Estimates ◽  
Hebrew Version ◽  
State Form

To establish the psychometric properties of the state form of the Depression Adjective Check List (DACL) with elderly Israeli, a 1981 Hebrew version of the DACL by Lomranz, Lubin, Eyal, and Medini, along with the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale and Cantril's Self-anchoring Striving Scale, were administered to 86 independently functioning elderly persons (35 men and 51 women) living in a home for the aged. Reliability estimates (alphas and test-retest) were moderate to high; validity estimates (concurrent and construct) were again moderate to high. It was concluded that the state form of the Depression Adjective Check List is suitable for use with elderly Israeli.

A Grade-Six Reading Level Key for the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 883-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Rodney Van Whitlock ◽  
Melinda R. Rea
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health Center ◽  
Mental Health Center ◽  
Reading Level ◽  
Check List ◽  
Reliability Measures ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Affect Adjective

A scoring key containing adjectives from the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised (MAACL-R) at or below the Grade 6 reading level (MAACL–R6) was used to rescore data from two nonreferred samples (college students, ns = 52 and 78) and one referred sample of 202 from a community mental health center outpatient clinic. Reliability (measures of internal consistency and test-retest) and validity (correlations with five 5–point self-rating mood scales) were almost as high as those for the MAACL–R, and convergence among the MAACL–R6 scales was not increased. Means for the referred group were significantly higher.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document