Stability of a Q-Sort Model of Optimal Mental Health
| Autor: | Peter B. Zeldow, Emily Bennett |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Psychometrics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Personality development Stability (learning theory) Developmental psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Adaptation Psychological Humans Personality sort Personality test Young adult media_common Observer Variation Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Mental health Clinical Psychology Mental Health Personality Development Q-Sort Female Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Personality Assessment. 69:314-323 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7752 0022-3891 |
| DOI: | 10.1207/s15327752jpa6902_5 |
| Popis: | This study explores clinicians' conceptions of optimal mental health as a function of target age and asks whether contemporary conceptions of optimal mental health differ from Block's (1961) earlier Q-sort model. Ten experienced clinicians from Northwestern University described the personality characteristics of optimally adjusted 25- and 50-year-old targets using the California Q-set. Item scores from these Q-sorts were aggregated to form 25-year-old, 50-year-old, and composite templates of optimal mental health. Using the Spearman-Brown formula, the reliability of the 10-judge composite was .97. The 3 templates were very highly correlated with each other and with Block's original template. Q-sort descriptions of optimal mental health are remarkably stable over 2 generations of clinicians and between young adulthood and mid-life. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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