A Third Comparison of Two Short-Form Derivatives of the Taylor MAS, Using Psychiatric Patients

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-498
Author(s):  
Edmund S. Howe
Keyword(s):  
Normal Control ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Derivatives Of

Earlier studies in this Journal failed to adduce convincing evidence that Christie and Budnitzsky's 20-item forced-choice anxiety scale reduces social desirability effects otherwise assumed to be present in Bendig's 20-item (True-False) version of Taylor's Manifest Anxiety Scale. Using 70 heterogeneous psychiatric patients as Ss, this research shows a correlation of .92 between test scores on the two scales, which value is significantly larger than twice observed for normal control Ss. Our earlier impressions remain unchanged.

Emotionality, Repression-Sensitization, and Maladjustment

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (474) ◽  
pp. 399-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Response Style ◽  
Personality Variable ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Personality Questionnaires ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
Factor Dimension

Much of the current research on personality questionnaires has concerned itself with response style or bias related to “social desirability”, in which the first factor dimension of the M.M.P.I. is implicated (Edwards and Heathers, 1962). Stable personality differences have been detected between those who are placed high and low on this dimension as measured by a number of M.M.P.I. scales (e.g. Pt (Psychasthenia), K (Defensiveness), Taylor's MAS (Manifest Anxiety), Welsh's A (Anxiety) Scale—see Christie and Lindauer, 1963). However, a lack of integration has resulted from a failure to recognize that the same personality variable is being measured by scales of “social desirability”, “repression-sensitization”, or the tendency to deny or admit symptoms, and as well as “social desirability”, this factor has been identified as “general maladjustment or ego weakness” (Kassebaum, Couch and Slater, 1959), and “neuroticism” (Eysenck, 1962).

Irrational Beliefs and Reading Comprehension

1984 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 777-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Prola
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Irrational Beliefs ◽  
College Freshmen ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female College ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

The hypothesis that the endorsement of Ellis' irrational beliefs is associated with less effective reading comprehension was assessed. A correlation of —.39 between scores on the Irrational Beliefs Scale and the Descriptive Tests of Language Skills: Reading Comprehension Test was found for 144 male and female college freshmen. The relationship does not appear to be mediated by anxiety, as measured by a short form of the Manifest Anxiety Scale.

Comparison of Two Scoring Methods for the Short Form of the Manifest Anxiety Scale and Eysenck's Extraversion (E) and Neuroticism (N) Scales

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1235-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Salisbury ◽  
David Sherrill ◽  
S. Thomas Friedman ◽  
Bernard Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Short Form ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
The Other ◽  
Scoring Methods ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Reliability Estimates ◽  
The University ◽  
Manifest Anxiety ◽  
True False

83 undergraduates at the University of Texas (Austin) were administered two forms of the MAS, E, and N scales. One form called for traditional true/false responses (scored 2/1); the other, responses along a 6-point continuum (scored +3/–3). Correlations and reliability estimates for the scales under both conditions reflect the equivalence of the scoring methods.

A Short Form of the Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale

1958 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nissim Levy
Keyword(s):  
Short Form ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Manifest Anxiety
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