Walter W Hudson
Biographic Data
| ID | 100411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter W Hudson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter W |
| FAMILY NAME | Hudson |
| SIGNATURE | HUDSON W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 401 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Brief Adult Assessment Scale
Objective: The Brief Adult Assessment Scale (BAAS) is a multidimensional assessment scale designed for use by practitioners and researchers that measures the severity of client problems in 16 areas of adult personal and social functioning. This article describes the BAAS; provides information about its administration, scoring, and interpretation; and reports findings with regard to the psychometric characteristics of the scale. Methods: Data from…
The Multidimensional Adolescent Assessment Scale
The Multidimensional Adolescent Assessment Scale is a tool for the assessment of the severity of personal and social problems in adolescence. It is composed of 16 subscales relevant to adolescent functioning, including depression; self-esteem; problems with mother, father, or family; personal stress; problems with friends or school; aggression; suicidal thoughts; feelings of guilt; confused thinking; disturbing thoughts; memory loss; and alcohol …
Creating and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments for Practice and Research
In this age of accountability, social work practitioners face greater demands to demonstrate the effectiveness of their interventions. A practical way to accomplish this is to use rapid assessment instruments (RAIs) to measure a client’s level of functioning so that any subsequent change in functioning can be accurately detected over time. Although great strides have been made during the past three decades in the development of RAIs, there remain…
Can Empirical Clinical Practice Techniques Improve Social Work Outcomes
Objective: To determine whether empirical clinical practice (ECP) techniques such as the use of standardized scales and single-subject designs are associated with improved outcomes for clients. Method: One group of clients was served by workers who used ECP techniques in combination with a standard intervention; a second group was served by workers who used only the intervention. Results: Clients whose workers used ECP techniques showed significa…
The Client Satisfaction Inventory
Objective To obtain initial results with regard to the reliability and validity of the Client Satisfaction Inventory (CSI), a 25-item scale for measuring general satisfaction with services among clients of human service agencies. Method The CSI was administered to 329 clients of 11 agencies in six states. Also administered were three other standardized measures and a brief descriptive questionnaire, results from which were used to assess the disc…
Personal and Social Functioning
This article describes a nonexperimental study that seeks to determine the extent to which nine psychometrically sound measures of problems with social functioning account for seven different reliable and valid measures of problems with personal functioning. This study is based on a single predictive or explanatory model in which predictor variables are entered and tested in the same order through the use of hierarchical regression. The strong ps…
Using Second-Order Factor Analysis in Examining Multiple Problems of Clients
Data from veterans of the Persian Gulf engagement were studied to assess the potential of second-order factor analysis in examining, interpreting, and directing person-environment interventions with an array of different but related individual and environmental problems. Participants of the study were 1,532 veterans of the Persian Gulf engagement who were eligible for social services provided by the Veterans Admintstration. The results provided s…
Sexual Harassment of Social Work Students
This article reports on a study that examined the sexual harassment experiences among 226 bachelor's of social work and master's ofsocial work students in one school of social work and in their field placements. The prevalence and severity of sexual harassment on campus and in fieldwork agencies are discussed, as are the implications of the findings and issues for further investigation
Reliability and Measurement Error in the Presence of Homogeneity
This paper describes a limitation of using Cronbach's Alpha to estimate reliability when using a sample with homogeneous responses in the measured construct. More specifically, it describes the risk of falsely concluding that a new instrument may have poor reliability and demonstrates the use of an alternate statistic that may serve as a cushion against such errors. Data from two validation studies are used to illustrate the utility of the new st…
Measurement Issues in Human Behaviour Theory
This paper provides a brief introduction to the use of standardized measurement scales in behavioural theory, discusses some of the limitations of the domain sampling model of measurement for behavioural scientists and practitioners, and identifies central measurement issues in behavioural theory that are germane to all measurement tools. The ever popular and useful behavioural checklist is used to introduce the domain sampling model of measureme…
Comprehensive Assessment in Social Work Practice
Findings are reported from an initial evaluation of a new multidimensional assessment tool, the Multi-Problem Screening Inventory (MPSI). The inventory gathers information on 27 different areas of personal and social functioning and is designed for use by human service practitioners in a variety of settings. Basic guidelines for using the instrument are detailed, with emphasis given to the preparation and interpretation of graphic profiles for ra…
The Index of Drug Involvement
Social workers often need a wider range of assessment scales that can be used in education, research, and practice. The Index of Drug Involvement (IDI) is a short-form assessment scale that may be of use to social work educators, researchers, and practitioners who work with clients with drug abuse or chemical dependency problems. This article describes the IDI; provides information about its administration, scoring, and interpretation; and descri…
The problem of sample size estimation
Journal Article The problem of sample size estimation: Confidence intervals Get access John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD Associate Professor College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Herson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-3333 An earlier version of this article was presented at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, March 1993, New York. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Walt…
"The Impending Demise of "Designer Diagnoses
This article suggests that the increasing attention to the inadequacies of popular language and labeling, called designer diagnoses by the authors, in describing people's psychological traits and emotional distress is good news for clinicians who strive to incorporate critical thinking skills into theirday-to-day assessment decisions about clients. Specifically, the article discusses three errors in reasoning that may have led to the demise (or i…
A Short-Form Scale to Measure Peer Relations Dysfunction
This paper presents validation testing results of a short-form scale designed to measure the degree or intensity of problems in peer relationships as seen and reported by the respondent. After reporting the psychometric characteristics of the scale, the authors present data to show how use of the scale might enhance a therapist's accuracy of assessment of peer relation problems. Further, a "clinical cutting score" is suggested which can help a th…
Sexual activity and preference
We present a new multidimensional measure of sexual activity and preference that may be of use to researchers and practitioners who work in clinical settings involving sex-related problems. The questionnaire contains six subscales to measure amounts of sexual activity and six subscales to measure degree of preference for those activities. The 12 subscales have good to excellent reliabilities, and they all appear to have content, construct, and fa…
A short‐form scale to measure liberal vs. conservative orientations toward human sexual expression
This paper presents a new, short‐form scale that was designed to measure the extent to which a person adheres to a liberal or a conservative orientation toward human sexual expression. It has a score range from 0 to 100, a reliability α = .94, a standard error of measurement of 4.20, and good construct, factorial, and concurrent validity. The paper presents the major research findings that serve as a basis for the partial validation of the scale
Assessment of Marital Discord in Social Work Practice
This paper rcports the revalidation findings of the "Index of Marital Satisfaction" (IMS) that were obtaincd from three separate studies. The scale was found to have a reliability in excess of .90 and it also has excellent discriminant, construct, content, and factorial validity. The IMS scale has bccn revised so that it can be used with unmarried partners. Findings are also presented to show how marital relationship problems relate to a number o…
Scientific Imperatives in Social Work Research and Practice
This article examines recent assertions regarding shortcomings of method and prescription alleged to occur within the field of social work research. It attempts to clarify misinterpretations of scientific thought and to correct misinformation presented in a recent article in this journal. The major purpose of this article is to set forth, in this author's opinion, a sounder view of the use of scientific imperatives in the conduct of social work r…
A short‐form scale to measure sexual discord in dyadic relationships
This paper presents a new short‐form scale for use by clinical workers and researchers in measuring the degree or magnitude of a problem in the sexual component of a dyadic relationship, as seen by the respondent. The scale was designed for use in repeated administrations at periodic intervals in order that therapists might continually monitor and evaluate their clients' response to treatment. Internal consistency and test‐retest reliability were…
The Assessment of Spouse Abuse
This paper presents a new short-form scale called the Index of Spouse Abuse or ISA that was designed for use in clinical settings to monitor and evaluate progress in treatment. The ISA can be used on a regular or periodic basis with a single client in order to evaluate change in the degree or severity of both physical and nonphysical abuse as perceived by female respondents. The paper presents detailed findings concerning the reliability and vali…
A Strategy for the Measurement of Homophobia
This paper attempts to refine and state more clearly an operational definition of homophobia. Homophobia is seen as but one dimension among many that collectively refer to the much larger domain of homonegativeism. The paper then presents a new measure of homophobia, called the IHP, and reports the finding of a study designed to validate the new scale. The IHP was found to have a reliability of .90 and good content and factorial validity
The Non-Linear Relationship between Marital Satisfaction and Stages of the Family Life Cycle
Walter W. Hudson, Gerald J. Murphy, The Non-Linear Relationship between Marital Satisfaction and Stages of the Family Life Cycle: An Artifact of Type I Errors?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 263-267
Author's Reply
The essential emphasis of the Brown and Levitt comments about my Note on Research is that research utilization and consumption should be taught as an integral part of practice courses. That has been tried many times, and it fails routinely. Practice teachers do not wish to spend a great deal of time teaching research utilization and consumption in their practice courses, many will simply refuse to do it, and most freely acknowledge that they do n…
Research Training in Professional Social Work Education
This article examines the nature and scope of a major problem in the research-training component of the curriculum in most undergraduate and graduate programs of social work. It then presents an analysis of student training needs and offers a conceptual framework with which to obtain a solution to the problem
A Strategy for the Measurement of Homophobia
This paper attempts to refine and state more clearly an operational definition of homophobia. Homophobia is seen as but one dimension among many that collectively refer to the much larger domain of homonegativeism. The paper then presents a new measure of homophobia, called the IHP, and reports the finding of a study designed to validate the new scale. The IHP was found to have a reliability of .90 and good content and factorial validity
A short‐form scale to measure sexual discord in dyadic relationships
This paper presents a new short‐form scale for use by clinical workers and researchers in measuring the degree or magnitude of a problem in the sexual component of a dyadic relationship, as seen by the respondent. The scale was designed for use in repeated administrations at periodic intervals in order that therapists might continually monitor and evaluate their clients' response to treatment. Internal consistency and test‐retest reliability were…
The Assessment of Spouse Abuse
This paper presents a new short-form scale called the Index of Spouse Abuse or ISA that was designed for use in clinical settings to monitor and evaluate progress in treatment. The ISA can be used on a regular or periodic basis with a single client in order to evaluate change in the degree or severity of both physical and nonphysical abuse as perceived by female respondents. The paper presents detailed findings concerning the reliability and vali…
Creating and Validating Rapid Assessment Instruments for Practice and Research
In this age of accountability, social work practitioners face greater demands to demonstrate the effectiveness of their interventions. A practical way to accomplish this is to use rapid assessment instruments (RAIs) to measure a client’s level of functioning so that any subsequent change in functioning can be accurately detected over time. Although great strides have been made during the past three decades in the development of RAIs, there remain…
Comprehensive Assessment in Social Work Practice
Findings are reported from an initial evaluation of a new multidimensional assessment tool, the Multi-Problem Screening Inventory (MPSI). The inventory gathers information on 27 different areas of personal and social functioning and is designed for use by human service practitioners in a variety of settings. Basic guidelines for using the instrument are detailed, with emphasis given to the preparation and interpretation of graphic profiles for ra…
Scientific Imperatives in Social Work Research and Practice
This article examines recent assertions regarding shortcomings of method and prescription alleged to occur within the field of social work research. It attempts to clarify misinterpretations of scientific thought and to correct misinformation presented in a recent article in this journal. The major purpose of this article is to set forth, in this author's opinion, a sounder view of the use of scientific imperatives in the conduct of social work r…
A short‐form scale to measure liberal vs. conservative orientations toward human sexual expression
This paper presents a new, short‐form scale that was designed to measure the extent to which a person adheres to a liberal or a conservative orientation toward human sexual expression. It has a score range from 0 to 100, a reliability α = .94, a standard error of measurement of 4.20, and good construct, factorial, and concurrent validity. The paper presents the major research findings that serve as a basis for the partial validation of the scale
The Client Satisfaction Inventory
Objective To obtain initial results with regard to the reliability and validity of the Client Satisfaction Inventory (CSI), a 25-item scale for measuring general satisfaction with services among clients of human service agencies. Method The CSI was administered to 329 clients of 11 agencies in six states. Also administered were three other standardized measures and a brief descriptive questionnaire, results from which were used to assess the disc…
The Index of Drug Involvement
Social workers often need a wider range of assessment scales that can be used in education, research, and practice. The Index of Drug Involvement (IDI) is a short-form assessment scale that may be of use to social work educators, researchers, and practitioners who work with clients with drug abuse or chemical dependency problems. This article describes the IDI; provides information about its administration, scoring, and interpretation; and descri…
Using Second-Order Factor Analysis in Examining Multiple Problems of Clients
Data from veterans of the Persian Gulf engagement were studied to assess the potential of second-order factor analysis in examining, interpreting, and directing person-environment interventions with an array of different but related individual and environmental problems. Participants of the study were 1,532 veterans of the Persian Gulf engagement who were eligible for social services provided by the Veterans Admintstration. The results provided s…
Assessment of Marital Discord in Social Work Practice
This paper presents a new short-form scale for use by clinical workers and researchers in measuring the degree of marital discord among married partners. It was specially designed for use in repeated administrations at regular intervals in order that therapists might continually monitor and evaluate the client's response to treatment. The scale has been found to be a highly reliable and valid measure of both marital discord and marital dissatisfa…
Sexual activity and preference
We present a new multidimensional measure of sexual activity and preference that may be of use to researchers and practitioners who work in clinical settings involving sex-related problems. The questionnaire contains six subscales to measure amounts of sexual activity and six subscales to measure degree of preference for those activities. The 12 subscales have good to excellent reliabilities, and they all appear to have content, construct, and fa…
Can Empirical Clinical Practice Techniques Improve Social Work Outcomes
Objective: To determine whether empirical clinical practice (ECP) techniques such as the use of standardized scales and single-subject designs are associated with improved outcomes for clients. Method: One group of clients was served by workers who used ECP techniques in combination with a standard intervention; a second group was served by workers who used only the intervention. Results: Clients whose workers used ECP techniques showed significa…
Personal and Social Functioning
This article describes a nonexperimental study that seeks to determine the extent to which nine psychometrically sound measures of problems with social functioning account for seven different reliable and valid measures of problems with personal functioning. This study is based on a single predictive or explanatory model in which predictor variables are entered and tested in the same order through the use of hierarchical regression. The strong ps…
A Short-Form Scale to Measure Peer Relations Dysfunction
This paper presents validation testing results of a short-form scale designed to measure the degree or intensity of problems in peer relationships as seen and reported by the respondent. After reporting the psychometric characteristics of the scale, the authors present data to show how use of the scale might enhance a therapist's accuracy of assessment of peer relation problems. Further, a "clinical cutting score" is suggested which can help a th…
Elementary Techniques for Assessing Single-Client/ Single-Worker Interventions
This article describes several elementary statistical procedures which can be used to test the effectiveness of treatment that is conducted with a single client using so-called N = 1 or time-series designs. Each of these procedures is illustrated in a format that is suitable for use with paper-pencil or pocket calculator arithmetic. Use of these procedures makes feasible the conduct of formal research investigations and the evaluation of one's ow…
The Multidimensional Adolescent Assessment Scale
The Multidimensional Adolescent Assessment Scale is a tool for the assessment of the severity of personal and social problems in adolescence. It is composed of 16 subscales relevant to adolescent functioning, including depression; self-esteem; problems with mother, father, or family; personal stress; problems with friends or school; aggression; suicidal thoughts; feelings of guilt; confused thinking; disturbing thoughts; memory loss; and alcohol …
Sexual Harassment of Social Work Students
This article reports on a study that examined the sexual harassment experiences among 226 bachelor's of social work and master's ofsocial work students in one school of social work and in their field placements. The prevalence and severity of sexual harassment on campus and in fieldwork agencies are discussed, as are the implications of the findings and issues for further investigation
Reliability and Measurement Error in the Presence of Homogeneity
This paper describes a limitation of using Cronbach's Alpha to estimate reliability when using a sample with homogeneous responses in the measured construct. More specifically, it describes the risk of falsely concluding that a new instrument may have poor reliability and demonstrates the use of an alternate statistic that may serve as a cushion against such errors. Data from two validation studies are used to illustrate the utility of the new st…
Measurement Issues in Human Behaviour Theory
This paper provides a brief introduction to the use of standardized measurement scales in behavioural theory, discusses some of the limitations of the domain sampling model of measurement for behavioural scientists and practitioners, and identifies central measurement issues in behavioural theory that are germane to all measurement tools. The ever popular and useful behavioural checklist is used to introduce the domain sampling model of measureme…
The problem of sample size estimation
Journal Article The problem of sample size estimation: Confidence intervals Get access John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD Associate Professor College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Herson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-3333 An earlier version of this article was presented at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, March 1993, New York. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Walt…
"The Impending Demise of "Designer Diagnoses
This article suggests that the increasing attention to the inadequacies of popular language and labeling, called designer diagnoses by the authors, in describing people's psychological traits and emotional distress is good news for clinicians who strive to incorporate critical thinking skills into theirday-to-day assessment decisions about clients. Specifically, the article discusses three errors in reasoning that may have led to the demise (or i…
An Autotelic Teaching Experiment with Ancillary Casework Services
Casework as a Causative Agent in Client Deterioration
Using an elementary form of a Monte Carlo experiment, this paper illustrates a common error that arises when efforts are made to substantively interpret experimental outcomes that are not found to be statistically significant. It also relates these ideas to misinterpretations of data arising through regression artifacts. The purpose of this review is to identify certain misuses of information in the assessment of experimental and quasi-experiment…
Assessment of Marital Discord in Social Work Practice
This paper presents a new short-form scale for use by clinical workers and researchers in measuring the degree of marital discord among married partners. It was specially designed for use in repeated administrations at regular intervals in order that therapists might continually monitor and evaluate the client's response to treatment. The scale has been found to be a highly reliable and valid measure of both marital discord and marital dissatisfa…
Elementary Techniques for Assessing Single-Client/ Single-Worker Interventions
This article describes several elementary statistical procedures which can be used to test the effectiveness of treatment that is conducted with a single client using so-called N = 1 or time-series designs. Each of these procedures is illustrated in a format that is suitable for use with paper-pencil or pocket calculator arithmetic. Use of these procedures makes feasible the conduct of formal research investigations and the evaluation of one's ow…
Author's Reply
The essential emphasis of the Brown and Levitt comments about my Note on Research is that research utilization and consumption should be taught as an integral part of practice courses. That has been tried many times, and it fails routinely. Practice teachers do not wish to spend a great deal of time teaching research utilization and consumption in their practice courses, many will simply refuse to do it, and most freely acknowledge that they do n…
Research Training in Professional Social Work Education
This article examines the nature and scope of a major problem in the research-training component of the curriculum in most undergraduate and graduate programs of social work. It then presents an analysis of student training needs and offers a conceptual framework with which to obtain a solution to the problem
A Strategy for the Measurement of Homophobia
This paper attempts to refine and state more clearly an operational definition of homophobia. Homophobia is seen as but one dimension among many that collectively refer to the much larger domain of homonegativeism. The paper then presents a new measure of homophobia, called the IHP, and reports the finding of a study designed to validate the new scale. The IHP was found to have a reliability of .90 and good content and factorial validity
The Non-Linear Relationship between Marital Satisfaction and Stages of the Family Life Cycle
Walter W. Hudson, Gerald J. Murphy, The Non-Linear Relationship between Marital Satisfaction and Stages of the Family Life Cycle: An Artifact of Type I Errors?, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 263-267
A short‐form scale to measure sexual discord in dyadic relationships
This paper presents a new short‐form scale for use by clinical workers and researchers in measuring the degree or magnitude of a problem in the sexual component of a dyadic relationship, as seen by the respondent. The scale was designed for use in repeated administrations at periodic intervals in order that therapists might continually monitor and evaluate their clients' response to treatment. Internal consistency and test‐retest reliability were…
The Assessment of Spouse Abuse
This paper presents a new short-form scale called the Index of Spouse Abuse or ISA that was designed for use in clinical settings to monitor and evaluate progress in treatment. The ISA can be used on a regular or periodic basis with a single client in order to evaluate change in the degree or severity of both physical and nonphysical abuse as perceived by female respondents. The paper presents detailed findings concerning the reliability and vali…
Assessment of Marital Discord in Social Work Practice
This paper rcports the revalidation findings of the "Index of Marital Satisfaction" (IMS) that were obtaincd from three separate studies. The scale was found to have a reliability in excess of .90 and it also has excellent discriminant, construct, content, and factorial validity. The IMS scale has bccn revised so that it can be used with unmarried partners. Findings are also presented to show how marital relationship problems relate to a number o…
Scientific Imperatives in Social Work Research and Practice
This article examines recent assertions regarding shortcomings of method and prescription alleged to occur within the field of social work research. It attempts to clarify misinterpretations of scientific thought and to correct misinformation presented in a recent article in this journal. The major purpose of this article is to set forth, in this author's opinion, a sounder view of the use of scientific imperatives in the conduct of social work r…
A short‐form scale to measure liberal vs. conservative orientations toward human sexual expression
This paper presents a new, short‐form scale that was designed to measure the extent to which a person adheres to a liberal or a conservative orientation toward human sexual expression. It has a score range from 0 to 100, a reliability α = .94, a standard error of measurement of 4.20, and good construct, factorial, and concurrent validity. The paper presents the major research findings that serve as a basis for the partial validation of the scale
Sexual activity and preference
We present a new multidimensional measure of sexual activity and preference that may be of use to researchers and practitioners who work in clinical settings involving sex-related problems. The questionnaire contains six subscales to measure amounts of sexual activity and six subscales to measure degree of preference for those activities. The 12 subscales have good to excellent reliabilities, and they all appear to have content, construct, and fa…
A Short-Form Scale to Measure Peer Relations Dysfunction
This paper presents validation testing results of a short-form scale designed to measure the degree or intensity of problems in peer relationships as seen and reported by the respondent. After reporting the psychometric characteristics of the scale, the authors present data to show how use of the scale might enhance a therapist's accuracy of assessment of peer relation problems. Further, a "clinical cutting score" is suggested which can help a th…
"The Impending Demise of "Designer Diagnoses
This article suggests that the increasing attention to the inadequacies of popular language and labeling, called designer diagnoses by the authors, in describing people's psychological traits and emotional distress is good news for clinicians who strive to incorporate critical thinking skills into theirday-to-day assessment decisions about clients. Specifically, the article discusses three errors in reasoning that may have led to the demise (or i…
The problem of sample size estimation
Journal Article The problem of sample size estimation: Confidence intervals Get access John G. Orme, PhD, John G. Orme, PhD Associate Professor College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Herson Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-3333 An earlier version of this article was presented at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, March 1993, New York. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Walt…
Comprehensive Assessment in Social Work Practice
Findings are reported from an initial evaluation of a new multidimensional assessment tool, the Multi-Problem Screening Inventory (MPSI). The inventory gathers information on 27 different areas of personal and social functioning and is designed for use by human service practitioners in a variety of settings. Basic guidelines for using the instrument are detailed, with emphasis given to the preparation and interpretation of graphic profiles for ra…
The Index of Drug Involvement
Social workers often need a wider range of assessment scales that can be used in education, research, and practice. The Index of Drug Involvement (IDI) is a short-form assessment scale that may be of use to social work educators, researchers, and practitioners who work with clients with drug abuse or chemical dependency problems. This article describes the IDI; provides information about its administration, scoring, and interpretation; and descri…
Using Second-Order Factor Analysis in Examining Multiple Problems of Clients
Data from veterans of the Persian Gulf engagement were studied to assess the potential of second-order factor analysis in examining, interpreting, and directing person-environment interventions with an array of different but related individual and environmental problems. Participants of the study were 1,532 veterans of the Persian Gulf engagement who were eligible for social services provided by the Veterans Admintstration. The results provided s…
Sexual Harassment of Social Work Students
This article reports on a study that examined the sexual harassment experiences among 226 bachelor's of social work and master's ofsocial work students in one school of social work and in their field placements. The prevalence and severity of sexual harassment on campus and in fieldwork agencies are discussed, as are the implications of the findings and issues for further investigation
Reliability and Measurement Error in the Presence of Homogeneity
This paper describes a limitation of using Cronbach's Alpha to estimate reliability when using a sample with homogeneous responses in the measured construct. More specifically, it describes the risk of falsely concluding that a new instrument may have poor reliability and demonstrates the use of an alternate statistic that may serve as a cushion against such errors. Data from two validation studies are used to illustrate the utility of the new st…
Measurement Issues in Human Behaviour Theory
This paper provides a brief introduction to the use of standardized measurement scales in behavioural theory, discusses some of the limitations of the domain sampling model of measurement for behavioural scientists and practitioners, and identifies central measurement issues in behavioural theory that are germane to all measurement tools. The ever popular and useful behavioural checklist is used to introduce the domain sampling model of measureme…
The Client Satisfaction Inventory
Objective To obtain initial results with regard to the reliability and validity of the Client Satisfaction Inventory (CSI), a 25-item scale for measuring general satisfaction with services among clients of human service agencies. Method The CSI was administered to 329 clients of 11 agencies in six states. Also administered were three other standardized measures and a brief descriptive questionnaire, results from which were used to assess the disc…
Personal and Social Functioning
This article describes a nonexperimental study that seeks to determine the extent to which nine psychometrically sound measures of problems with social functioning account for seven different reliable and valid measures of problems with personal functioning. This study is based on a single predictive or explanatory model in which predictor variables are entered and tested in the same order through the use of hierarchical regression. The strong ps…
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