Developed Death Anxiety Scale for Children (DASC), instrument to explore children's responses to death and dying. Constructed scale of neutral and anxiety producing words. Established validity by reading words to children and recording galvanic skin response, response time, and pulse rate. Found that children responded with greater skin resistance…

Administered Anticipatory Grief Scale (AGS) and Hopkins Symptom Checklist-SCL-90-R to 27 wives who were caring for their spouses suffering from dementia. Alpha coefficient for AGS was 0.84, indicating good internal consistency. AGC was positively and significantly correlated with depression, anxiety, and hostility dimensions of SCL-90-R,…

Discusses the benefits and shortcomings of three systems for assessing risk factors affecting children: the Illinois CANTS 17B; the Washington Assessment of Risk Matrix; the Child at Risk Field System. Although these systems are used in 23 states, the lack of staff knowledgeable about human development and the uncertain reliability and validity of…

Research relating to the factor structure of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and the Clinical Analysis Questionnaire is reviewed. Different opinions about the factors measured by the 16PF are discussed. Focusing on the second-order factor level could eliminate problems with the instruments' reliability. (SLD)

Presents methodology designed to evaluate validity of retrospective self-report inventories. Applied technique to college student, twin, and sibling data to demonstrate reliability and validity of retrospective self-report questionnaire on timing of pubertal onset. Support provided by four main findings is discussed. (Author/NB)

The study calculated indices of interjudge reliability and interjudge and intrajudge agreement on ratings made by 15 experienced speech clinicians on 5 deviant speech dimensions of 15 speakers with ataxic dysarthria and a wide range of speech intelligibility. Judges were reliable in tracking imprecise consonants, excess and equal stress, and harsh…

Using data from an individually administered interview schedule (the Consumer Satisfaction Inventory), reliability among nine interviewers was estimated with several statistical methods, including simple percentages of agreement, kappa and weighted kappa, Pearson correlations, t tests on interviewers' means, and generalizability theory techniques.…

Development of the Learning Strategies Survey is described, and two related studies involving 1,091 college students (354 males and 737 females) are presented to demonstrate use of this survey to predict learning from expository text. Factor analysis yielded two stable factors of high internal reliability and acceptable test-retest reliability.…

Four indexes of agreement between ratings of a person that correct for chance and are interpretable as intraclass correlation coefficients for different analysis of variance models are investigated. Relationships among the estimators are established for finite samples, and the equivalence of these estimators in large samples is demonstrated. (SLD)

Longitudinal studies of personality traits and intelligence have used an exponential function to relate magnitudes of correlations between occasions to the time interval. This exponential function is shown to be equivalent to a quasisimplex model of a stationary process with constant reliability. (SLD)

Responses from 52 of 174 business faculty and 61 of 203 business practitioners rated important ethical concerns on a Kohlberg-influenced scale. A high degree of consistency between the two samples was found. Environmental, employment, and corporate/individual integrity issues ranked highest. (SK)

Results of 3 studies, involving 80 adult employees, 6,810 defense contractor employees, and 88 graduate students, support the reliability and validity of a new measure of global work autonomy, the Global Work Autonomy Scale (B. Ashforth and A. Saks, 1995). (SLD)

Examined the reliability of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Scale (MEIM) (J. Phinney, 1992) in measuring feelings of ethnic affirmation and belongings, ethnic behaviors, and ethnic knowledge with 118 inner-city African American children aged 8 to 12 years. Results of reliability analyses are mixed and indicate that constructs of ethnic behavior and…

A survey of 279 undergraduates examined the validity and reliability of "The Courage to Heal Workbook" (TCHW) checklist and whether the checklist can distinguish between participants reporting sexual abuse histories and those who did not. The checklist had robust reliability and could significantly discriminate between survivors and…

The psychometric properties of the Motivation Assessment Scale were examined using 90 ratings of different problem behaviors among 86 individuals with mental retardation. Although reliability and internal consistency were generally poor, the results depended upon topographies of problem behavior and methods of calculation. The construct validity…