Nesrin H Sahin | PubMed Health

PubMed2003

[Multidimensional anger scale].

OBJECTIVE: To develop a new and original scale which can measure anger on a multidimensional level. METHOD: In the first phase of this study, 2 pilot studies were conducted. The first pilot study was conducted on a sample of 60 individuals to develop an item pool. A second pilot study was conducted with another group of 148 individuals using a 429 item scale that was developed from this item pool. After the item analyses, a 158 item 'Multidimensional Anger Scale' (MAS) was derived for use in the second phase of the study to investigate the psychometric properties of the instrument. In the second phase reliability and validity analyses of this scale with 5 dimensions, Anger symptoms, Anger eliciting situations, Anger related cognitions, Anger reactions and Interpersonal Anger, were conducted on a sample of 756 individuals. RESULTS: Psychometric analysis of the scale showed that it possessed adequate internal consistency (alpha coefficients between 0,64 and 0,95). The validity of the scale was supported by the expected pattern of relations with other inventories (Brief Symptom Inventory and Guilt and Shame Scale). CONCLUSION: Multidimensional Anger Scale, for Turkish culture, may be suggested as a valid and reliable scale to measure anger in different dimensions.

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PubMed2002

[The validity, reliability and factor structure of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)].

PURPOSE: The Brief Symptom Inventory is an instrument used in psychopathological evaluations. The standardization study of the instrument was carried out previously in a sample of university students (mean age=21.02) by the authors (Sahin & Durak, 1994). The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether the psychometric characteristics obtained for that sample were also valid for adolescents. METHOD: The sample consisted of a total of 559 adolescents (287 female and 272 male), randomly chosen from different socio-economic backgrounds, living in different neighbourhoods in Ankara. The other instruments used for validation were the Social Comparison Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Trait Anxiety Scale, and the Life Satisfaction Scale. RESULT: The factor analyses revealed five factors whose item distribution matched very closely that of the previous study on university students. The alpha coefficients of the factor subscale ranged between .70 (for depression) and .88 (for somatization). The correlation coefficients of the factor subscale with the other instruments ranged between -.45 (p<.001) and .71 (p<.001). The current study also contains the results of the analyses in terms of the demographic variables and the three index scores that can be obtained from the inventory. DISCUSSION: The findings concerning the factorial structure and concurrent validity of the BSI with the criterion measures show that the instrument can be used with adolescents as well. The factorial structure obtained with the current adolescent sample is very similar to the one obtained with the university sample (Sahin & Durak, 1994). The researchers think that the same factor subscale can be used with adolescent samples as well.

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