The Children's Affective Lability Scale: a psychometric evaluation of reliability.
The Children's Affective Lability Scale (CALS) is a 20-item parent report measure developed to assess affect regulation in children aged 6-16. It was normed with school children in regular education classrooms and with children hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. Internal-consistency reliability, split-half reliability, and two-week test-retest reliability were excellent. Staff interrater reliability in the psychiatric sample was acceptable. Higher CALS scores were observed in an in-patient psychiatric sample than in either an out-patient or a normative sample. A principal components factor analysis yielded two components for the normative sample.
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Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, Broadway, Baltimore, MD, USA. GERSON@KKINET.KKI.JHU.EDU
Gerring
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Freund
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Joshi
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Capozzoli
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Brady
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Denckla
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D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000523:psychology; D010343:Patient Admission; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012016:Reference Values