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

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.

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Van Whitlock ◽  
Bernard Lubin

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.


1991 ◽  
Vol 68 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1311-1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Lomranz ◽  
Nitza Eyal ◽  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Alik Joffe

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.


1986 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Marvin Zuckerman ◽  
Philip G. Hanson ◽  
Terry Armstrong ◽  
Christine M. Rinck ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Marvin Zuckerman ◽  
Benard Lubin ◽  
Christine M. Rinck

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 821-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Bourne ◽  
William M. Coli ◽  
William E. Datel

Anxiety scale scores from the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List were significantly related to the daily activities of 6 Army medics performing helicopter ambulance evacuations of combat casualties.


2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 950-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taciano L. Milfont ◽  
Sally Merry ◽  
Elizabeth Robinson ◽  
Simon Denny ◽  
Sue Crengle ◽  
...  

Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine the reliability and validity of the short form of the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS-SF). Method: A sample of 9567 randomly selected New Zealand secondary school students participated in the Youth2000 Health and Wellbeing Survey that included the full-length version of the RADS. The reliability and validity of the subset of items that make up the RADS-SF and its comparability to the original version were assessed using Cronbach's alpha, kappa statistics, correlations between the two versions of the instrument, confirmatory factor analysis and correlation to other questions in the survey considered likely to be associated with depression. Results: The RADS-SF had Cronbach's alpha of 0.88, was strongly correlated (0.95) to the RADS, had acceptable fit for the data (χ2=2823.27, df=35, comparative fit index=0.96, root mean square error of approximation=0.092, 90% confidence interval=0.089–0.095, standardized root mean square residual=0.042), showed configural invariance across gender, age and ethnic groups, and was strongly correlated with other depression-related questions, such as suicidal ideation (r=0.48). While the overall agreement for classification of depression by the two scores was good (κ=0.75), a higher percentage of students were classified as having depressive symptoms using the recommended RADS-SF cut-off point of 26 compared with the RADS criteria. Conclusions: The RADS-SF was found to have acceptable reliability and validity and to have psychometric properties comparable to the RADS in a large population of New Zealand adolescents.


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