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Mehmet Ali Yildiz – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The aim of this study was to adapt the Positive and Negative Affect Scale for Children (PANAS-C) developed by Laurent et al. into Turkish and to examine its validity and reliability on high school adolescents. The data of the study were analyzed with four different study groups. The first study group consisted of 414 high school adolescents, 262…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affective Measures, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Flett, Gordon L.; Nepon, Taryn; Goldberg, Joel O.; Rose, Alison L.; Atkey, Sarah K.; Zaki-Azat, Justeena – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2022
Previous work has focused on positive feelings of mattering, which pertain to the human need to feel significant. In the current article, we examine a complementary yet distinct construct involving feelings of not mattering that may arise from being marginalized and experiences that heighten a sense of being insignificant to others. We also…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Test Construction, Well Being, Test Validity
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Park, Mihwa; Flores, Raymond – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire to measure elementary preservice teachers' emotions about teaching science and mathematics. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire, Teacher Emotion for teaching Science and Mathematics (TESaM), was designed and pilot and field tested with a sample of preservice elementary teachers in the…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Affective Measures, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Lee, Ji-yeon; Shin, Yun-Jeong – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2019
The goal of this study was to validate the Experience in Close Relationships Scale--Short version (ECR--S) in Korean college students. One item of the attachment avoidance subscale was deleted following confirmatory factor analysis. The results suggest that the ECR--S demonstrated acceptable internal consistency and construct validity.
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Flett, Gordon L.; Hewitt, Paul L.; Nepon, Taryn – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
In the current article, we describe the development and validation of a self-report measure of self-generated stress and its associations with measures of perfectionism, self-criticism, and distress. The Self-Generated Stress Scale is a seven-item inventory that taps the tendency to see oneself as someone who generates and adds to existing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Measures (Individuals), Personality Traits, Self Concept
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Lowe, Patricia A.; Peyton, Vicki; Reynolds, Cecil R. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2007
A sample of 79 individuals participated in the present study to evaluate the test score stability (8-week test-retest interval) and construct validity of the scores of the Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale-College Version, a new measure used to assess anxiety in college students, for application to graduate-level students. Results of the study…
Descriptors: Scores, Graduate Students, Construct Validity, Test Validity
Langham-Johnson, Shirley – 1981
The study investigated statistically significant correlations between levels of test anxiety and socioeconomic status among college sophomores and juniors. The Anxiety Scale (Alpert and Haber) was administered to students in an educational psychology course. Administrations were conducted at a neutral time, 45 days prior to the final exam, and…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Anxiety, Correlation, Higher Education
Dush, David M.; Kaoukis, George – 1980
The measurement of personality characteristics via the analysis of verbal communication is of interest due to its unobtrusive, accessible, and objective nature. The Mahl Speech Disturbance Indices, a procedure for assessing anxiety on the basis of speech disturbance patterns, was examined to assess the nature and reliability of the indices and…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Anxiety, Correlation, Individual Characteristics
Harrell, Thomas H.; Chambless, Dianne L. – 1979
This paper describes the development, utility, and validity of the Situational Self-statement and Affective State Inventory (SSASI), a research inventory designed to assess cognitions and affects across a variety of five hypothetical situations. Each situation describes a realistic incident involving interpersonal conflict, principally criticism…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Cognitive Measurement, Correlation, Emotional Response
Reynolds, William M.; And Others – 1980
Academic self-concept has been viewed by numerous investigators as an important facet of general self-concept. The Academic Self-Concept Scale (ASCS) was developed as a measure of academic self-concept in college students. The initial item pool consisted of 59 items worded to conform to a four-pont Likert-type response format. On the basis of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Affective Measures, College Students
Turner, Robert V.; And Others – 1977
As part of a needs assessment conducted for the Virginia public schools during the year 1969-70, the Virginia Affective Assessment Questionnaire (VAAQ) was developed. The VAAQ assesses affective traits, such as motivation and self concept, that are related to academic success--as measured by standardized achievement tests and performance in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Attitude Measures
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Van Hesteren, Frank – 1983
The development of a modified semantic differential measure of school-related attitudes of grades 3-6 children is described and its validation involving 99 children is reported. Each of the four scales of this measure, Attitude Toward-School, -Language Arts, -Teachers, and -Arithmetic, was found to be unidimensional. Internal consistency estimates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Correlation, Elementary Education
Strickland, Bonnie R. – 1980
Since the development of the Lubin Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL) in 1965, researchers have used this instrument in many empirical and clinical studies. Scores on the DACL have correlated with other measures of depression and have also been related to personal characteristics of depressed individuals. The DACL has been used in studies to…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Clinical Psychology
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Westbrook, Mary T.; Viney, Linda L. – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1980
Scales measuring people's perceptions of themselves as origins (determining their own behavior) or pawns (their behavior being determined by forces beyond their control) were devised using content analysis of verbalizations. Data were obtained from 528 people, experiencing one of nine life situations. Pawn and origin perception differed across…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Affective Measures, Content Analysis
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Veldman, Donald J.
A 62-item form of the sentence-completion technique requiring one-word responses was administered to 1718 undergraduates in teacher education. The data were punched on cards and lists of different responses were compiled. Responses indicating evasion, hostility, anxiety and depression were identified for each stem to form a scoring "dictionary." A…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, College Students, Correlation, Data Processing
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