A review of the reliability and validity of Likert‐type scales for people with intellectual disability

Hartley, Sigan L.; MacLean, William E.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00844.x

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“…This procedure has been shown to successfully elicit coping responses among adults with mild ID (Hartley & MacLean, 2005;Lunsky, 2003;Wayment & Zetlin, 1989). A sentence stem task has the advantage of avoiding the endorsement of socially desirable responses and other response biases associated with yes-no, either-or and Likert scale questionnaires (Hartley & MacLean, 2006;Finlay & Lyons, 2002).…”

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Coping Strategies of Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability for Stressful Social Interactions

Hartley

MacLean

2008

Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities

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Adults with mild intellectual disability (ID) experience stressful social interactions and often utilize maladaptive coping strategies to manage these interactions. We investigated the specific types of Active and Avoidant coping strategies reported by 114 adults with mild ID to deal with stressful social interactions. Open-ended responses to a sentence stem task were coded into five dimensions of Active and Avoidant coping. Adults with mild ID used Problem-Focused coping most frequently and this strategy was negatively correlated with psychological distress. Emotion-Focused coping was used infrequently but was also negatively related to psychological distress. Coping accounted for a significant portion of variance in psychological distress after controlling for perceptions of stressful social interactions. Findings have important implications for informing the development of interventions to enhance the ability of adults with mild ID to cope with stressful social interactions.

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Coping Strategies of Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability for Stressful Social Interactions

Hartley

MacLean

2008

Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities

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“…The ECBS took approximately 5 min for parents to finish, and parents reported that the measure was easy to complete due to its clarity and simplicity. Importantly, the ECBS is simple enough for parents from low-income populations to complete independently, potentially reducing professional time and expenses while increasing response rates (Hartley & MacLean, 2006). Parents of children at risk for behavior problems are more likely than is the general population to have risk factors associated with reading difficulties (Kirsch et al, 2002), and the low reading difficulty of the ECBS should improve the accuracy of the measure for this population.…”

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Behavior problems in young children from low‐income families: The development of a new screening tool

Holtz

Fox

2012

Infant Mental Health Journal

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The purpose of this study was to construct a screening tool, the Early Childhood Behavior Screen (ECBS), to identify behavior problems and prosocial behaviors in very young children (1-5 years old) from low-income backgrounds. Field testing of the initial screening tool was conducted with a representative, diverse sample of 439 parents from a low-income, urban community. The final 20-item scale was written at a 3.9 grade reading level. Psychometric properties of the ECBS revealed that the items loaded on two factors, the Challenging Behavior factor and the Prosocial Behavior factor. Each factor demonstrated high levels of internal consistency (.87 and .92, respectively). The Challenging Behavior factor demonstrated adequate levels of concurrent validity (r = .75), sensitivity (r = .82), and specificity (r = .80) based on its relationship with the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (S.M. Eyberg & D. Pincus, 1999). The Prosocial Behavior factor is a clinically useful aspect of the ECBS, as it allows researchers and practitioners to identify the child's positive behaviors as part of a strength-based approach to treatment. The results suggested that the ECBS has potential as a brief screening tool that is useful in pediatric, psychological, and educational settings that serve low-income populations to aid in the identification of young children with challenging behaviors that may require intervention services.

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“…Questionnaires based on Likert scales are often used in psychometrics, social studies and panels, in marketing research [18,19], or in perceptual-cognitive performance research [20]. The order of presentation of video clips was counterbalanced and randomly determined, during 1 To have full access to the clips please send an email to fcasanova@fade.up.pt and/or jgargant@fade.up.pt Fig.…”

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Representativeness of Offensive Scenarios to Evaluate Perceptual- Cognitive Expertise of Soccer Players

Casanova¹,

Garganta

Oliveira³

et al. 2012

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Abstract:In soccer, players have to carry out fast and accurate decisions in a complex and variable environment. The purpose of the present study was to set representative attacking sequences trials for further use in the research of perceptual-cognitive skills for playing soccer. Elite Portuguese soccer coaches (n = 4, UEFA-A) were presented with separate test film sequences encompassing structured attacking soccer actions to determine the representativeness of the scenarios. In the experiment 41 offensive clips were viewed by the coaches. Each clip has approximately 5 s long with an inter-trial interval of 5 s. To help the participants to the viewing process, just before the start of each clip a small circle surrounding the ball it is shown on screen to indicate the area of its first appearance. The order of presentation of video clips was counterbalanced and randomly determined, during both moments of evaluation. In all testing film sequences watched the representativeness of an attacking soccer phase was significantly concordant among the observers (W = 1, p < 0.05). The reliability between observers was statistically consistent (! = 0.889). And the reproducibility of the results between both moments of evaluation was very high (Z = 0; p = 1). The entire footage could be used in research that required knowing the tactical awareness of soccer players.

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A review of the reliability and validity of Likert‐type scales for people with intellectual disability

Abstract: Likert-type scales should include pictorial representations of response alternatives, a single set of one or two word response descriptors, clarifying questions, and pretests, and are best used with adolescents and adults with borderline IQ to mild ID.

Cited by 217 publications

References 70 publications

Coping Strategies of Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability for Stressful Social Interactions

Coping Strategies of Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability for Stressful Social Interactions

Behavior problems in young children from low‐income families: The development of a new screening tool

Representativeness of Offensive Scenarios to Evaluate Perceptual- Cognitive Expertise of Soccer Players

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