THE CHILDRENS AFFECTIVE LABILITY SCALE - A PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION OFRELIABILITY

The Children's Affective Lability Scale (GALS) is a 20-item parent rep ort measure developed to assess affect regulation in children aged 6-1 6. It was normed with school children in regular education classrooms and with children hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. Internal-con sistency reliability, split-half reliability, and two-week test-retest reliability were excellent. Staff interrater reliability in the psych iatric sample was acceptable. Higher GALS scores were observed in an i n-patient psychiatric sample than in either an out-patient or a normat ive sample. A principal components factor analysis yielded two compone nts for the normative sample. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Irel and Ltd.