Development and validation of a concise emotional inventory

This study investigated the initial development and validation of a concise emotional inventory. The scale was developed as a very expedient device that can be used with young adults in order to access a person's emotional state across a wide variety of defined life content areas. The version of the scale used in this study was specifically developed and validated for use with college-aged students modeling experimental procedures developed by Nowicki (2000). Studies dealing with emotional differences among young student music populations were not found in the literature. Effective use of this scale for music therapists requires some form of "validation" with college-aged students in order to investigate how music therapists may use such a scale to assist their assessment of a person within this particular population. It is noted, however that these comparisons may inform potential use of this scale, but should not provide "normative" data for music life assessments. It must be remembered this inventory is designed only to give information specific to each person. Therefore, group comparisons are made solely to demonstrate reliability across various geographical areas and college populations. Thus, "reliability" measures presented are intended only to demonstrate that the inventory can be administered easily and used to identify potential areas, issues, situations or persons who are capable of eliciting negative or positive related ideations.