title: The Children's Affective Lability Scale: a psychometric evaluation of reliability.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, Broadway, Baltimore, MD, USA. GERSON@KKINET.KKI.JHU.EDU
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Gerson
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Gerring
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Freund
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Capozzoli
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brady
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Denckla
mesh_terms: 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