Test-Taking and the Stability of Adjustment Scales
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Evaluation Quarterly
- Vol. 2 (2), 275-291
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841x7800200206
Abstract
Nonpatient responses to five major adjustment scales were examined at three time-points, two weeks apart. There was no evidence for a systematic increase in adjustment scores due to completing the instruments. Internal consistency coefficients and test-retest stability coefficients for the five adjustment scales show them to have utility for assessing patient groups. Only the SCL-90 showed promise for allowing reliable assessment of individual change over time. All five scales significantly discriminate patient groups from groups of nonpatients. Further research is needed to clarify present results, to determine the clinical significance of various magnitude changes on the scales, and to develop more specific measures of adjustment and symptomatology.Keywords
This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
- Assessment of Social Adjustment by Patient Self-ReportArchives of General Psychiatry, 1976
- Measurement and Classification in Socio-Psychiatric Epidemiology: Midtown Manhattan Study (1954) and Midtown Manhattan Restudy (1974)Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1975
- Comparative Studies of PsychotherapiesArchives of General Psychiatry, 1975
- The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL)Published by S. Karger AG ,1973
- Part 1. Improvement criteria in drug trials with neurotic patientsPsychological Medicine, 1971
- Factors influencing the outcome of psychotherapy: A review of quantitative research.Psychological Bulletin, 1971
- How we should measure "change": Or should we?Psychological Bulletin, 1970
- IMMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM SYMPTOMATIC COURSE OF PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTSAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1963
- Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of testsPsychometrika, 1951