The Life Change Inventory

A Device for Quantifying Psychological Magnitude of Changes Experienced by College Students

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ID13655018
AuthorsArthur F Costantini (University of Connecticut, corresponding author), Jack Davis (0009-0006-6727-4921), Jack E Davis (0000-0003-0246-7897, University of Connecticut), John R Braun (University of Bridgeport), Annette Iervolino (University of Bridgeport)
Year1974
Volume34
Issue3
Pages991-1000
Publication date1974-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1974.34.3.991
OpenAlexW2050817104
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

Theoretical rationale, construction, and preliminary data on psychometric properties of the Life Change Inventory are presented. It provides a convenient device for investigating psychological consequences of different degrees of readjustment in college student's lives. Initial reliability data (test-retest = .68 and .88; Cronbach Alpha = .87), and personality and mood correlates (significant positive correlations with Profile of Mood States tension, depression, anger, and vigor, and with Differential Personality Inventory insomnia, headache proneness, feelings of unreality, hypochondriasis, ideas of persecution, impulsivity, perceptual distortion, and somatic complaints), are promising. Except for Profile of Mood States vigor, these significant correlations are consistent with the idea that excessive life changes have adverse psychological consequences

Anger · Depressed mood · Feeling · Mood · Personality · Personality Assessment Inventory · Profile of mood states · Psychometrics · Clinical Psychology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Social Psychology

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