A Monte Carlo simulation explored how to optimize power in the extreme groups strategy when sampling from nonnormal distributions. Results show that the optimum percent for the extreme group selection was approximately the same for all population shapes, except the extremely platykurtic (uniform) distribution. (SLD)

To measure Theory of Work Adjustment personality and adjustment style dimensions, content-based scales were analyzed for homogeneity and successively reanalyzed for reliability improvement. Three sound scales were developed: inflexibility, activeness, and reactiveness. (SK)

This critical review of the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension considers construct validity, cross-situational consistency, replicability, and applicability to non-English cultures. (SK)

Investigated reliability and construct validity of Children's Depression Scale. Data from Australian sample of 202 adolescents revealed that four factors met stipulated criteria and accounted for 54% of variance. Revised subscales, three with five items and one with four items, had strong construct and face validity and high reliability.…

Evidence was obtained from 841 pharmacists for the convergent validity and discriminant validity of measures of career commitment, organizational commitment, career withdrawal intention, and job withdrawal intention. Results indicate the usefulness of confirmatory factor analysis as an alternative to exploratory analyses when determining the…

Reports the development of the Therapeutic Behavior Scale, a six-item scale used to assess verbal therapeutic behaviors. Presents data supporting its internal consistency, interrater reliability and construct validity. Suggests that the scale can be useful for training, therapist self-assessment and research about the therapeutic processes and…

The Skills Confidence Inventory and the Task Specific Self Efficacy Scale were completed by 324 college students. Construct validity of both measures was upheld, and the relationship between similarly named subscales was high. A significant relationship was found between self-efficacy and interpersonal and social dimensions of career indecision.…

Comparability of two forms of the CCTST is evaluated. Data are compared with a previously reported study; relationships to comparable tests are considered. Evidence indicates low internal-consistency reliability estimates, a lack of comparability, and poor construct validity for Forms A and B of the CCTST. (Author/EMK)

This study evaluated the content, concurrent, and construct validity of the Leadership Skills Inventory (LSI), a measure designed to help students analyze the strength of their leadership skills. Results indicated satisfactory content, concurrent, and construct validity, although factor analysis revealed that the LSI contained only one factor, not…

Presents a rationale, description, and partial construct validation of a new theory of foreign language aptitude: CANAL-F--Cognitive Ability for Novelty in Acquisition of Language (foreign). The theory was applied and implemented in a test of foreign language aptitude (CANAL-FT). Outlines the CANAL-F theory and details of its instrumentation…

Explored aspects of assessment of extended investigation ("project") practiced in the operational examinations of The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) for the perspective of construct validity. Samples of the 1993 (n=333) and 1996 (n=259) biology test results reveal two methods of assessing the project. (MAK)

Eighty undergraduates completed the Interpersonal Dependency Inventory (IDI) twice, with an 84-week interval between administrations. Retest reliability for the whole scale and subscales were similar to those of studies using shorter test-retest intervals. Implications of results for the construct validity of the IDI are discussed. (SLD)

Describes the development of the Religious Occupations and Stress Questionnaire (ROS), which attempts to fill the need for an appropriate measure of the stress experienced by individuals in religious occupations. Results of reliability and validity studies indicate high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and construct validity.…

Developed a measure of motivational traits, the Motivational Trait Questionnaire (MTQ), around 5 motivational traits and evaluated the developed the MTQ through 2 studies involving 166 and 119 undergraduate students. Results provide evidence of the construct validity of the MTQ and support the multidimensional structure of motivational traits…

Relations between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), and the Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) and its revision (NEO-PI-R) were studied for 170 community adults and 57 clinical patients. Correlations between the instruments showed meaningful relations between the two…