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R Loo

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PubMed1979

An evaluation of the Briggs-Nebes modified version of Annett's handedness inventory.

The Briggs-Nebes (1975) modified version of Annett's (1967) handedness inventory was administered to 59 female and 51 male undergraduates and 101 nursing students. J-shaped distributions of scores in the dextral direction and significant sex differences such that males were more sinistral than females were found. The inventory was found to be multi-dimensional with up to three factors, power, skill, and rhythm in order of importance. The utility of the modified inventory was supported and recommendations were made concerning the use of subscale or factor scores in addition to overall scores.

Factor Analysis, Statistical↗
PubMed1979

A psychometric investigation of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.

The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was administered to 139 females and 123 males. Scale statistics were obtained and hierachial factor analyses were performed. The P scale was found to have low internal consistency reliabilities and to covary with the L scale in the female subsample. Factor analyses showed recovery of E scale items in a secondary factor, Social Extraversion, without an impulsivity primary factor. No P and N dimensions recovered; rather components of each scale interrelated in two meaningful dimensions at the tertiary level.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory A-Trait Scale: dimensions and their generalization.

The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory A-Trait scale was administered to 152 female and 158 male students. Principal-components factor analyses yielded four orthogonal factors for each sex. The findings indicated that factor pattern comparisons should be made prior to pooling data across sex for psychometric investigations. Also, limited support was found for the generalization of dimensions across sex and samples both within and between cultures.

Adjustment Disorders↗
PubMed1978

Cautionary note on the use of short state-anxiety measures.

The report noted that the use of high item-remainder coefficients as the sole criterion in the selection of items for short state-anxiety scales from full scales can lead to inaccurate interpretation of results. It was demonstrated that the use of a four-item state-anxiety scale from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory A-State scale based on high item-remainder coefficients changed relationships in a previously reported study which used full-scale scores. It was proposed that such changes in relationships were the result of selecting four items which happen to load on only one of three dimensions of the A-State scale. The criterion of high item-remainder coefficents alone may be inadequate in the formation of short state-anxiety scales.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1978

Personality dimensions and reversible perspective in Embedded Figures Test.

The study examined the relationship between performance on reversible-perspective items in individual and group embedded-figures tests and remaining items, personality and performance variables in two samples of normal females. Performance on the reversible-perspective items was better than on the remaining items in the individual test and as good as other items in the group test. Those who experienced difficulty in solving the reversible-perspective items had more "psychiatric" complaints and greater sociability than subjects who experienced little difficulty.

Female↗
PubMed1977

Components underlying the relation between field dependence and extraversion.

Components of Eysenck's Extraversion scale were examined to account for previous findings indicating that field independence, as measured by individual and group forms of the embedded-figures test, is associated with Introversion. In two of the three samples of female unversity students, field independence, as measured by the Group Embedded Figures Test, was associated with low impulsivity and slow decision time, as measured by items on Eysenck's Extraversion scale.

Extraversion, Psychological↗
PubMed1976

Anxiety and perceptual articulation.

The study investigated Witkin's suggestion that low manifest anxiety is associated with relatively high perceptual articulation, whereas high anxiety is associated with relatively low perceptual articulation. Previous research typically has not provided adequate control for subjects' IQ; therefore, results may have been confounded by differences in subjects' ability. The study attempted to clarify the relationship between state and trait anxiety and perceptual articulation when IQ was controlled for 60 female subjects, who fell within a predetermined IQ range and were blocked into low, moderate and high A-Trait groups. Half of each group was assigned to either low or high ego-involving conditions. All subjects completed the Embedded-figures Test, Gestalt Completion and Concealed Words Test. Contrary to Witkin, the study yielded no significant relationship between anxiety and perceptual articulation.

Adolescent↗
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Measurement of neo-Pavlovian properties of higher nervous activity by motor reaction-time tasks.

A preliminary study involving 80 paid subjects, 40 of each sex, investigated the usefulness of motor response-time tasks as measures of three neo-Pavlovian properties of higher nervous activity, excitatory strength, dynamism, and mobility. Six independent factors were extracted from a set of variables measuring those properties. These factors demonstrated the independence of the three properties, of the excitatory and inhibitory processes in dynamism and mobility, and of strength and sensitivity at least when such tasks are used as measures of properties in the auditory modality. These findings are promising, however, further investigation is required to validate these tasks against the classical tests of properties of higher nervous activity.

Acoustic Stimulation↗
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Structure of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death and Dying Scale.

The study examined the factor and cluster structures and internal consistency reliabilities of the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale. Data were reanalyzed from an earlier study of 88 subjects who completed the scale under neutral conditions. The four subscales showed only weak recovery in the four-factor solution and gender loaded on the factor reflecting the Fear of Death of Others subscale. The two-factor solution showed that items reflecting the death and dying of "self" tended to load on the first factor whereas items concerning "others" loaded on the second factor. A Ward's cluster analysis yielded five meaningful clusters of items. Not surprisingly, the four subscales showed only moderate internal consistency reliabilities whereas the overall scale was acceptable. Comments are presented for improving the scale as well as for using the scale in applied settings.

Attitude to Death↗