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Lowe, Patricia A. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2013
Two studies examined the psychometric properties of the Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-College Version (AMAS-C) scores among U.S. college students. In Study 1,300 college students were administered the AMAS-C. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) indicated that the five-factor model (four anxiety factors and one lie factor) with a higher order factor…
Descriptors: Program Validation, Anxiety, Psychometrics, College Students
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Wagner, Edwin E.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1990
This study, using data for 200 psychiatric/chemical dependency patients, attempted to justify subscales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Distributions of all possible split-half correlations for certain research scales of the MMPI revealed negative skewness resulting in spuriously lowered reliability estimates. The scales…
Descriptors: Estimation (Mathematics), Patients, Personality Measures, Rating Scales
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Hsu, Louis M. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1992
D.V. Budescu and J.L. Rogers (1981) proposed a method of adjusting correlations of scales to eliminate spurious components resulting from the overlapping of scales. Three reliability correction formulas are derived in this article that are based on more tenable assumptions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematical Models, Personality Measures
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Poythress, Norman G., Jr. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Faschingbauer offered guidelines in selecting MMPI short forms as substitutes for the MMPI. This reviews empirical studies of the clinical validity of MMPI short forms and discusses MMPI-168, not considered in Faschingbauer's earlier article. Empirical evidence favors the Faschingbauer Abbreviated MMPI and the MMPI-168 over others. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Psychological Evaluation