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Increased reliability of an objective personality measure for children
Author(s) -
Baker Eugene A.,
Ullman Douglas G.,
Stein Michael D.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(197804)15:2<191::aid-pits2310150210>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - psychology , test (biology) , developmental psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , population , clinical psychology , personality , attention span , projective test , social psychology , cognition , psychiatry , demography , sociology , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis , biology
The Missouri Children's Picture Series (MCPS) is explored as an assessment tool for boys in residential treatment. Extreme ease of administration is an attractive feature of the test. Boys in treatment usually have shown low test‐retest reliability, in contrast to other populations. Higher, significant reliability was obtained in the present study by a split‐deck procedure. It is suggested that the test is better administered to disturbed boys in two sittings, to offset their distractibility and short attention span. Under these conditions, the test can be applied to future work with this type of subject population.