Effects of Follow-up Procedures on Survey Results

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-278
Author(s):  
Aleda Roth ◽  
Deidre Klassen ◽  
Bernard Lubin
Keyword(s):  
Telephone Interview ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Check List ◽  
Personal Interview ◽  
Initial Interview ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Over Time

The Depression Adjective Check List was used as part of an initial interview and as a follow-up interview for measuring changes in depressed mood over time in a community survey. Four procedures were utilized in collecting the follow-up data, (1) leaving the questionnaire with the respondent, (2) mailing the questionnaire, (3) telephone interview, and (4) personal interview. Comparisons of the four procedures showed the telephone interview yielded significantly lower scores on depression than the other procedures. The results indicate potential problems from the use of the telephone interview. Possible confounding factors are discussed.

Role of Behaviorally Descriptive Adjectives in Description of Personality

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. Merenda ◽  
Joseph L. Fava
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Construct Validation ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Personality Models ◽  
Validation Research ◽  
Over Time ◽  
First Descriptions

Behaviorally descriptive adjectives and personality trait terms have been analyzed periodically by many psychological researchers and practitioners during the last half of this century. This analysis of personality-descriptive adjectives and terms has led to the development of several widely used adjective checklists for personality assessment and the postulation and the construct validation of several personality models. Foremost among the adjective checklists have been the 1948 Activity Vector Analysis (AVA), the 1950 Adjective Check List (ACL), and the more recent Personality Adjective Check List (PACL) in 1987. The first descriptions and reports of their developmental and validation research appeared in the professional refereed literature, respectively by Clarke in 1956, Gough in 1960, and Strack in 1987. The ACL contains 300 adjectives, various forms of the AVA contain 81 to 87 adjectives, and the PACL contains 153 adjectives. The dimensionality of personality models and the number of scales interpreted in the protocols from these instruments have either remained stable as in the case of AVA (4 dimensions, 6 scales) or have been quite variable over time. For example, the ACL was originally 5-dimensional with 6 scales being interpreted. Currently, the ACL yields 37 interpretable scales, and the PACL perhaps a 5-factor structure.

An Empirical Investigation of the Modeling of Depression

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 823-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Abrams ◽  
Glen D. King
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Check List ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Group Design ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Neutral Affect ◽  
Affect Adjective ◽  
State Form ◽  
Psychological Inventory

To investigate the effects of viewing various films on affect, 200 volunteer subjects were assigned to 10 groups following a modified Solomon four-group design. Five groups received pretesting and five groups received no pretesting before being exposed to one of five treatments and follow-up testing 2 or 3 wk. later with the State Form of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List and the Depression Check List. The treatments required viewing films of an actor who conveyed depression, positive affect, and neutral affect, and a no-film control. Subjects viewing a film were administered 13 semantic differential adjective pairs to obtain the observers' perception of the character in the film and the California Psychological Inventory. Depression increased following the depressed and neutral film conditions, and decreased from posttest to follow-up test, while the positive and no-film control conditions produced no change from pretest to posttest levels of depression. Similar results were found for the measure of anxiety but not for hostility. Subjects tended to be affected in the same way by the treatments regardless of their pretreatment levels of depression, anxiety, or hostility. Relationships between the changes in depression from pre-to posttest and personality variables were not confirmed.

Stability of Schizophrenic Affect and Values

1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-262
Author(s):  
Alexander Tolor ◽  
Jerome Mabli
Keyword(s):  
Personal Values ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Affect Adjective ◽  
Over Time

The stability over time of schizophrenics' personal values and emotional responses was studied using an especially devised Preference Schedule and the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List. Daily testing of 50 hospitalized schizophrenics and 22 controls over 2 wk. revealed greater variability of preference, but no greater fluctuation in affect, for schizophrenics. The schizophrenics, however, scored higher in Anxiety and Depression than normals. It was suggested that the emotions of schizophrenics represent fairly stable and enduring systems whereas personal values and preferences are part of more fluctuating processes. Some of these findings are consistent with Shakow's theory of the schizophrenic's impaired integrating ability that interferes with the maintenance of major sets.

scholarly journals The impact of regular dance classes on self-image and emotional state of demoralized female adolescents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrianna Banio
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Profile Of Mood States ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

Article present the possibilities of use dance classes and psychosocial factors in a specific environmental associated with among demoralized adolescents. In this paper presents research conducted on a group of adolescents whose behaviour is characterized by demoralization and whose commitment of criminal offences resulted in them becoming the subject of an confinement corrective measure, i.e. being placed in a youth educational centre. The Adjective Check List ACL created by H.G. Gough and A. Helibrun, as well as the Profile of Mood States (POMS) developed by McNair, Lorr and Droppleman were used in the research. After twelve weeks of systematic dance classes, the test was repeated and noticeable changes in self-perception of the surveyed girls were observed. The average values of 14 out of 37 scales of the ACL questionnaire after the end of the project differed significantly (p <0.05) compared to the results before the start of the project. Moreover, after each week of the project, a comparison of the survey results with the POMS questionnaire was carried out in terms of the severity of individual moods. The analysis shows that the subjects successively had a significant decrease in the level of all five negative states and an increase in positive mood

Evaluation of a Multimodal Structured Group Approach in Treatment of Depression

1985 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 984-986
Author(s):  
Mack Green ◽  
Wayman Wisner
Keyword(s):  
Beck Depression Inventory ◽  
Chronic Depression ◽  
Check List ◽  
Group Approach ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Treatment Of Depression ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Small N ◽  
First Session

The effects of a multimodal structured group approach for 8 clients with histories of recurrent or chronic depression were investigated. The Beck Depression Inventory, a measure of depression, was administered immediately prior to the first session and immediately afterwards. Scores were significantly lower immediately following the group. At a 6-mo. follow-up clients were again given the Beck scale and were also given the Depression Adjective Check List. The Beck scale scores remained significantly lower than at the beginning of the group; and the Depression Adjective Check List scores were within the normal, nondepressed range. A small n and lack of controls limit interpretation.

Adjective Check List

1965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrison G. Gough ◽  
Alfred B. Heilbrun
Keyword(s):  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List
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