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M A Church

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PubMed1980

Structure of the Janis-Field feelings of Inadequacy Scale.

450 university students were administered the Janis-Field Feelings of Inadequacy Scale to ascertain whether it is appropriate to treat this scale as a unitary measure of the construct. Component analysis of subjects' responses indicated that this is not in fact a unitary measure of self-esteem but rather is a composite of three distinct components of self-perception, referred to as: concern about evaluation, self-regard, and interaction anxiety. It is argued here that other frequently employed measures of self-esteem may be similarly misused, suggesting that systematic assessment of the common components tapped by various self-esteem scales is in order.

Humans↗
PubMed1979

Evidence of whooping-cough-vaccine efficacy from the 1978 whooping-cough epidemic in Hertfordshire.

The question of the efficacy of whooping-cough immunisation was central to the controversy that started in 1974. Definitive answers were not possible at the time because of the very low levels of whooping-cough in the preceding years and the absence of up-to-date information. The widespread abandonment of whooping-cough immunisation and the subsequent epidemic of whooping-cough have provided a natural epidemiological experiment. Figures from Hertfordshire in 1978 show that for children aged 4 years and under whooping-cough immunisation conferred 92% protection.

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