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Research Note: The Test‐Re test Stability of the Five Minute Speech Sample in Parents of Disadvantaged, Minority Children
Author(s) -
McGuire Jacqueline Barnes,
Earls Felton
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1994.tb02306.x
Subject(s) - psychology , respondent , disadvantaged , ethnic group , test (biology) , sample (material) , developmental psychology , audiology , clinical psychology , medicine , paleontology , chemistry , chromatography , sociology , political science , anthropology , law , biology
The test‐retest stability of the Five Minute Speech Sample, a brief measure of Expressed Emotion (EE), was established in a community sample of predominantly low income, ethnic minority families with children aged from 3 to 14 years. Significant stability was established when Borderline responses were included in the scoring. There was some interchange between High‐EE and Borderline‐EE, but none of the time one Low‐EE respondent gave a second speech sample that included a higher level of EE. Both English and Spanish speaking subjects had stable scores.