Reliability of life event assessments: test-retest reliability and fall-off effects of the Munich interview for the assessment of life events and conditions
| Autor: | Wolfgang Teder, Heidemarie Hecht, Cecilia A. Essau, Hildegard Pfister, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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Male Psychometrics government.form_of_government Münchner Ereignisliste Lebensereignisse Recall Rückgangs-Effekt Test validity macromolecular substances Life Change Events ddc:150 Munich Life Event List Life events Recall Fall-off effects Interview Psychological Humans Reliability (statistics) Psychological Tests Recall Life events Middle Aged Test (assessment) Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Free recall government Female Psychology Social psychology Follow-Up Studies Clinical psychology Incident report |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Affective Disorders, Bd. 16 (1989), Nr. 1, S. 77-91, ISSN: 0165-0327 |
| Popis: | This paper presents the findings of two independent studies which examined the test-retest reliability and the fall-off effects of the Munich Life Event List (MEL). The MEL is a three-step interview procedure for assessing life incidents which focusses on recognition processes rather than free recall. In a reliability study, test–retest coefficients of the MEL, based on a sample of 42 subjects, were quite stable over a 6-week interval. Stability for severe incidents appeared to be higher than for the less severe ones. In the fall-off study, a total rate of 30% fall-off was noted for all incidents reported retrospectively over an 8-year period. A more detailed analysis revealed average monthly fall-off effects of 0.36%. The size of fall-off effects was higher for non-severe and positive incidents than for severe incidents. This was particularly evident for the symptomatic groups. Non-symptomatic males reported a higheroverall number of life incidents than females. This was partly due to more frequent reporting of severe incidents. The findings of the fall-off study do not support the common belief that the reliability oflife incident report is much worse when the assessment period is extended over a period of several years as compared to the traditional 6-month period. |
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