The K-SF-42.
The purpose of the present article is to propose an alternative short form for the 199-item Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB), which we are calling the K-SF-42, as it contains 42 items as compared with the 20 items of the Mini-K, the short form that has been in greatest use for the past decade. These 42 items were selected from the ALHB, unlike those of the Mini-K, making direct comparisons of the relative psychometric performance of the two alternative short forms a valid and instructive exercise. A series of secondary data analyses were performed upon a recently completed five-nation cross-cultural survey, which was originally designed to assess the role of life history strategy in the etiology of interpersonal aggression. Only data from the ALHB that were collected in all five cross-cultural replications were used for the present analyses. The single immediate objective of this secondary data analysis was producing the K-SF-42 such that it would perform optimally across all five cultures sampled, and perhaps even generalize well to other modern industrial societies not currently sampled as a result of the geographic breadth of those included in the present study. A novel method, based on the use of the Cross-Sample Geometric Mean as a criterion for item selection, was used for generating such a cross-culturally valid short form.
1 Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Aurelio José
AJ
Figueredo
1 Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Rafael Antonio
RA
Garcia
2 A. T. Still Research Institute, A. T. Still University, Mesa, AZ, USA.
J Michael
JM
Menke
1 Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
W Jake
WJ
Jacobs
3 Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA, USA.
Paul Robert
PR
Gladden
4 Division of Integrated Sciences, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, USA.
JeanMarie
J
Bianchi
1 Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Emily Anne
EA
Patch
1 Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Connie J A
CJ
Beck
5 School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Phillip S
PS
Kavanagh
6 Department of Psychology and Communication, University of Sonora, Sonora, Mexico.
Marcela
M
Sotomayor-Peterson
7 Singapore Prison Service, Singapore.|8 School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
Yunfan
Y
Jiang
8 School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
Norman P
NP
Li
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cross-cultural research; life history theory; psychometrics