R. Vanwhitlock et B. Lubin, PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE GRADE-4 READING LEVEL MULTIPLE AFFECT ADJECTIVE CHECK LIST REVISED WITH OFFENDERS, Perceptual and motor skills, 86(2), 1998, pp. 551-560
The reliability and validity of the Grade 4 reading level Multiple Aff
ect Adjective Check List was assessed with offenders in four settings
within the criminal justice system. With the exception of the Sensatio
n Seeking Scale, the MAACL-R4 scales showed good internal consistency
and test-retest reliability and adequate convergent and discriminant v
alidity, but not for the Depression scale for 53 female arrestees and
the Hostility scale with 51 male arrestees. Correlations with self-rat
ings of health and stress and with the Family Environment scales were
in expected directions. It is concluded that the MAACL-R4 has the basi
c qualities necessary for use in research with offenders.