The Revised Transliminality Scale: Reliability and Validity Data From a Rasch Top-Down Purification Procedure

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 591-617

  Lange, Rense ^a,c   Thalbourne, Michael A ^b   Houran, James ^c   Storm, Lance ^b  

^a Illinois State Board of Education   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Key Words: transliminality; Rasch scaling; item bias; top down purification; thresholds; William James

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF EVALUATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0034575958     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.2000.0472     Document Type: Article

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