THE CONSISTENCY OF REPORTS ABOUT FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS FROM PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

Sixty-seven subjects with mild or moderate intellectual disability wer e assessed on a variety of measures of emotion. All of the measures we re self-report measures and all of the data is based on reports by the subjects' themselves. The battery included the Zung Self-Rating Anxie ty Scale, the Zung Depression Inventory, the General Health Questionna ire and the Eysenck-Withers Personality Test. The results reveal an im pressive amount of convergent validity in the subjects' emotional syst ems.