Some Evidence Relating to Convergent Validity of Form B of Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory

1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 725-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur G. Bedeian ◽  
Robert W. Zmud
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Mixed Pattern

This study examined the convergent validity of the recently developed short form of Coopersmith's Self-esteem Inventory. The inventory and the Adjective Check List were administered to 172 male and 85 female university students. Correlations of scores on the inventory and the Adjective Check List scales for Self-confidence, Exhibition, and Change displayed a mixed pattern. All three ACL scales were significantly related to the inventory for males, but only the Exhibition scale was significantly related for females. In all instances, the correlations were low, or at best moderate. These findings were not interpreted as demonstrating strong support for the convergent validity of the inventory.

Relationship of Need Achievement to Self-Esteem: Evidence for Validity of Form B of Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1219-1220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur G. Bedeian
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Achievement Scores ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Relationship Of

Self-esteem scores, as measured by the recently developed short form of Coopersmith's Self-esteem Inventory (Self-esteem Institute, 1974), were correlated with need achievement scores, as measured by Gough and Heilbrun's (1965) Adjective Check List. Self-esteem and need achievement were significantly related for male ( N = 172) and female ( N = 85) university students ( p < .001 and p < .03, respectively). This finding was interpreted as providing a measure of concurrent validity for the short form of Coopersmith's Inventory.

Personification of Death, as Seen in Adjective Check List Descriptions, among Funeral Service and University Students

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan F. Bassett ◽  
John E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
European Americans ◽  
Urban University ◽  
Funeral Service

One hundred twenty-nine undergraduate psychology students at a large urban university and 55 students at a college of funeral service completed the Death Anxiety Questionnaire (Conte, Weiner,&Plutchik, 1982), the Revised Death Anxiety Scale (Thorson&Powell, 1994), a nine question measure of belief in an afterlife (Daws, 1980), and used the 300-item Adjective Check List (ACL; Gough&Heilbrun, 1980) to describe what death might be like if personified as a human character in a play. Three Affective Meaning scores, five Transactional Analysis ego state scores, five Five Factor Model scores, and a Sex-Stereotype Index score were calculated based on ACL descriptions of the character of death. Lower death anxiety was associated with more positive ACL descriptions of death in both samples; however, belief in an afterlife was associated with differences in death personification only among university students. Men described death as higher on the Adult ego state than did women. In addition African Americans described death as a more positive character than did European Americans. Similarly, funeral service students described death as feminine, favorable, strong, but not active, more like a Nurturing Parent, and high on Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Emotional Stability; whereas, university students described death as masculine, neutral on Favorability, more like a Critical Parent, and low on Agreeableness and Emotional Stability.

Factor Analytic and Reliability Studies on the Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Thayer
Keyword(s):  
Short Form ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Measurement Reliability ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Long Form ◽  
High Measurement ◽  
Separate Activation

Two factor analytic studies were conducted on a revised long form and a short form of the Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List, a self-report test of transitory activation or arousal states. Although previous research indicated that the check list is composed of four independent activation factors, the present research instead suggests two general bipolar activation dimensions. However, certain evidence indicates that the concept of four separate activation factors cannot be completely abandoned. A third study showed high measurement reliability on two kinds of estimates.

Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Self-Esteem in Women

1986 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 663-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey D. Callahan ◽  
Aline H. Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Check List ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
The Social

Research shows that women both focus on the social aspects of jobs and rate their self-esteem on social factors, so it was hypothesized that women scoring high on a job-satisfaction questionnaire would score significantly higher on those scales of the Adjective Check List which are relevant to self-esteem than women scoring low in job-satisfaction. The results supported the hypothesis. Job-satisfied women were achievement-oriented, cooperative, tactful, social, self-confident, and comfortable with sex-appropriate roles. Job-unsatisfied women were self-critical, suffered from inferiority feelings, and displayed maladaptive tendencies. Further research was suggested.

scholarly journals Psychometric analysis of the short-form UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6) among Palestinian university students

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filasteen I. Nazzal ◽  
Orlanda Cruz ◽  
Félix Neto
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Arabic Version ◽  
Psychometric Characteristics ◽  
Loneliness Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Adequate Internal Consistency ◽  
Support Family

The purpose of this research was to analyze the psychometric characteristics of the short-form UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6) among Palestinian university students. The sample consisted of 288 university students (56% women and 44% men), aged 18-22 years. The psychometric characteristics of the ULS-6 were examined using confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, and criterion-related validity methods. The unidimensionality of the ULS-6 was supported among Palestinian university students. The ULS-6 showed good psychometric characteristics, with adequate internal consistency. In addition, the ULS-6 was negatively correlated with significant others support, family support, friends support, self-esteem and satisfaction with life. The results of the present study suggested that the Arabic version of the ULS-6 constitutes a concise psychometrically sound tool to assess loneliness.

Convergent Validity of Self-Reported Type a Behavior Pattern of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

1986 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Caracciolo ◽  
S. Molinari
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Behavior Pattern ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type A Behavior ◽  
Check List ◽  
Jenkins Activity Survey ◽  
Type A Behavior Pattern ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Activity Survey ◽  
Coronary Prone Behavior

A number of instruments has been proposed purporting to measure the Type A Behavior Pattern and evidence suggests little agreement among the measures. In this paper data are presented on the convergent validity of three self-report measures, the Jenkins Activity Survey, Form C; the Adjective Check List, Type A Behavior Scale; and the Coronary-prone Behavior Attitudes scale. A consecutive series of 33 outpatients affected by angina pectoris from a cardiologic department were subjects. Treatment with beta-blockers led to exclusion of eight subjects so that final sample was of 25, whose mean age was 60.24 yr. Most were female (76%, n = 19) and blue collar workers (72%, n = 18). A significant correlation was shown between the scores of Jenkins Activity Survey and the other scales, except for Type A elements related to hard-driving attitudes and job situation. No correlation was found between scores on the Adjective Check List scale and on the Coronary-prone Behavior Attitudes scale. The data are discussed in the light of the complexity of Type A Behavior Pattern, supporting the hypothesis of the multidimensional nature of this phenomenon and in terms of sociodemographic characteristics of the group.

Pet Ownership and Self-Perceptions of Older People

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 867-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline H. Kidd ◽  
Bruce Max Feldmann
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Pet Ownership ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Scheffe Test ◽  
Personal Adjustment ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Pet Owners

The study investigated the relationships between pet-ownership or non-ownership among elderly subjects and scores on the Adjective Check List scales. It was hypothesized that pet-owners would score higher on the Self-confidence and Personal Adjustment scales and lower on the Abasement, Deference, and Succorance scales than non-owners. 104 adults completed an experimenter-designed questionnaire and the check list. An analysis of variance was performed on the standardized T scores for each scale. For owners and non-owners combined, the Scheffé test showed that males were significantly higher on the Need for Achievement and Endurance scales, while females were significantly higher on the Lability scale. Pet-owners were significantly higher on the number of adjectives checked and on the Nurturance scale and significantly lower on the Succorance and Abasement scales than non-owners. Two of the interactions were significant. Male pet-owners scored significantly higher on the Defensiveness scale and male non-owners scored significantly higher on the number of unfavorable adjectives checked than did the other three groups. The differences suggest that pet-ownership may be psychologically advantageous to the elderly. Further research is needed.

Women Law Students’ Descriptions of Self and the Ideal Lawyer

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane W. Coplin ◽  
John E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Law Students ◽  
The Self ◽  
Occupational Aspirations ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
The Law ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Ideal

This study employed the Adjective Check List to assess descriptions of self and ideal lawyer among women law students in terms of sex-trait stereotypes and need structures. When compared to a sample of female undergraduates, the law students exhibited more self-confidence and autonomy. However, the law students perceived the ideal lawyer to be more rational and less emotional than themselves. While the female law students and female undergraduates had theoretically feminine self-descriptions, the law students’ perception of the ideal lawyer was relatively quite masculine. It was proposed that the perception of the legal profession as requiring primarily masculine traits may affect the self-selection of women into the field and may limit the occupational aspirations of women within the profession.

Self-Image of Nurses

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Reich ◽  
Andrew Geller
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Check List ◽  
Graduate Nurses ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Self Image

163 female graduate nurses described themselves using Gough and Heilbrun's Adjective Check List. The nurses scored higher on Dominance, Self-control, Achievement, Order, Self-confidence, Counseling, Readiness and Nurturance, among other variables and lower on Succorance, Change, Abasement, Lability and Number of Unfavorable Items Checked than the norms.

Factorial Study of Motivational Self-Ratings by Female Subjects

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rio Sciortino
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Initial Matrix ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Undergraduate Female ◽  
Promax Rotation ◽  
Significant Factors ◽  
Female Subjects

An iterative factor analysis was performed on the scores obtained from a Motivational Adjective Check List (MACL) ( N = 102 undergraduate female students). The initial matrix of significant factors was rotated according to the quartimax, varimax, and equamax procedures. The promax rotation was then performed on each of the three orthogonal solutions obtaining the promax-quartimax, promax-varimax, and promax-equamax solutions. Interpretation of factors was based on the promax-equamax solution and the factors obtained were: dedication, persistence, self-confidence, assertion, striving, individuality, and pursuance.

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