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.

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.

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.

Relationships among readability, reliability, and validity in a self-report adjective check list.

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
James F. Collins ◽  
Mark Seever ◽  
Rodney Van Whitlock ◽  
et al
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List

Life Satisfaction and Depression among Retired Black Persons

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 452-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asia Farakhan ◽  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
And William A. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
High Life Satisfaction ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Three Phases

Correlates of life satisfaction of 30 elderly black persons were studied by means of a three-session, phase-focused (pre-retirement, immediate post-retirement, and current) interview that included the Ecosystem Activity Record (EAR) and the Depression Adjective Check List (DACL) administered to 23 women and 7 men whose ages ranged from 52 to 97 yr. Findings over the three phases were (1) an over-all decrease in activities but an increase in time spent with family and home and an increase in participation in church or religiously oriented functions, (2) an over-all pattern of relatively high life satisfaction, and (3) relatively low levels of depressive mood. Relationships among demographic variables also were noted.

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.

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

Subjective Well-Being Measures: Reliability and Validity among Spanish Elders

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Stock ◽  
Morris A. Okun ◽  
Juan A Gómez Benito
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Affect Balance ◽  
Satisfaction Index ◽  
Reliability Estimates ◽  
Geriatric Center ◽  
Life Satisfaction Index

The Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale, Life Satisfaction Index, and Affect Balance Scale were translated into Castilian Spanish and Catalan. Responses to these scales were obtained by interviews with 151 elderly persons living in Spain. Reliability estimates for the Life Satisfaction Index and the Affect Balance subscales were comparable to those for English-speaking samples, while reliability estimates for the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale were somewhat lower. Validity estimates among these scales were consistent with previous research and previously reported factor structures were found to fit the present data reasonably well, although factor loadings were lower than those previously reported. English and translated versions of the scales are provided in Appendix A.

Norms for the revised hebrew version of the depression adjective check list

1981 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Lomranz ◽  
Nitza Eyal ◽  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
Gedon Medini
Keyword(s):  
Check List ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Hebrew Version
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