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Development of a random response scale for the multiple affect adjective check list-revised.

R Van Whitlock1, B Lubin, R George-Curran

  • 1University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA.

Perceptual and Motor Skills
|October 10, 2000
PubMed
Summary

A new Random Response Scale effectively identifies random answers on psychological assessments. This scale helps distinguish genuine responses from random ones in research, improving data reliability.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychological Assessment
  • Psychometrics

Background:

  • Ensuring response validity is crucial in psychological research.
  • The Multiple Affect Adjective Check List-Revised (MAACL-R) requires methods to detect random responding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a scale for identifying random response patterns on the MAACL-R.
  • To assess the scale's ability to differentiate random protocols from genuine responses.

Main Methods:

  • A 42-item scale was created using extreme (most/least frequent) and extreme valence (most/least frequent positive/negative) items from the MAACL-R.
  • The scale was administered to 420 college students and compared against a random sample to assess differentiation.
  • Correlations were examined with the Communality Scale (ACL) and NEO-FFI Conscientiousness Scale.

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Main Results:

  • The Random Response Scale successfully differentiated random protocols from those of college students.
  • College students scored significantly higher on the Random Response Scale than the random sample.
  • Scale scores showed correlations with the Communality Scale and NEO-FFI Conscientiousness, suggesting a link to dependability.

Conclusions:

  • The developed Random Response Scale is effective in detecting random responding on the MAACL-R.
  • The scale shows potential as a measure of "conscientiousness" or "dependableness" in participants.
  • This tool enhances the validity of data collected using the MAACL-R in psychological research.