T. Suslow et al., THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE AFFECTIVE GOTTSCHALK-GLESER CONTENT-ANALYSIS SCALES - A STEP TOWARD CONCURRENT VALIDATION, European journal of psychological assessment, 12(1), 1996, pp. 43-52
A first approach to the validation of the Italian version of the Gotts
chalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales of Anxiety and Hostility is prese
nted. To assess the validity of the Affective Content Analysis Scores
the Gottschalk-Gleser standard procedure for obtaining verbal samples
was followed and concurrently self-report measurements of comparable e
motional constructs were applied. A short form of the Differential Emo
tions Scale (DES) was administered three times to 50 university studen
ts to measure the emotional state before as well as after speech sampl
ing and the affectivity associated with the narrated life event. To in
vestigate whether the Gottschalk-Gleser Affect Scales measure emotiona
l traits the State-Trait-Anxiety-Inventory, an S-R Inventory of Anxiet
y, the Shame-Guilt Scale (Battacchi, Codispoti, & Marano, 1994) and th
e irritability Scale (Caprara, Borgogni, Cinanni, di Giandomenico, & P
asserini, 1985) were applied. Though the correlations between the meas
ures were generally low, evidence of convergent validity emerged for t
he Gottschalk-Gleser Total Anxiety Scale, the anxiety subscales Guilt
Anxiety and Shame Anxiety (that seem to measure an anxiety pattern con
sisting of several basic emotions) and For the hostility subscale Over
t Outward Hostility. The correlational data indicate that the Gottscha
lk-Gleser Affect Scales assess emotional traits as well as emotional s
tates.