With the rise of violent teenage crime, with an alarming number of child soldiers across the globe, and with the continually increasing number of children and adolescents who are victimized by violence and war, an instrument that measures nonviolent tendencies would be very useful. The Teenage Nonviolence Test (TNT) was recently developed and…

This study was designed to document the validity of the Teenage Nonviolence Test (TNT). In this study the concurrent validity of the TNT in various ways, the validity of the TNT using known groups, and the discriminant validity of the TNT by evaluating its relationships with other psychological constructs were assessed. The results showed that the…

The scale demonstrated reasonable item homogeneity. Validity data from five separate samples suggested that scores on the Group Therapist Orientation Scale related meaningfully to actual behavior in a group therapy context. (Author)

Purpose of this paper is to prove a psychometrically sound measuring device within an acceptable, standardized, manipulable, paradigmatic methodology, for the study of interpersonal distance and its parameters. (Authors/CB)

The results of this experiment clearly indicate that the presence of induced anxiety in a testing situation can depress the subject's level of performance on the WISC. (Author)

Purpose of this paper is to identify several critical problems and areas of needed research on the measurement of creativity. The area is surveyed in three general categories: validity, reliability, and usability. (Authors/CB)

Findings provide experimental validation for the anxiety scale used and have relevance for the explanation of the higher anxiety levels often observed in children in lower stream classes (Authors)

Purpose of this article is to report an investigation of the usefulness of hearing tests under various conditions, and of the validity of such tests for the study of musicality. (Author)

When criteria for the personality characteristics were provided by friends' ratings, the direct self-report measures were consistently superior to the indirect. When criteria consisted of experts' judgments, and the study design was biased to favor the indirect measures, these still were not superior to direct self-reports. (Author)