The Motivational Structure Questionnaire, Personal Concerns Inventory, and their Variants: Psychometric Properties

Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Goal-Based Approaches to Assessment and Intervention with Addiction and Other Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 205-232

  Klinger, Eric ^a   Cox, W Miles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estimates of reliability, obtained with MSQ and PCI within bounds of acceptable values; Factor structure of MSQ scales from two sets of samples; Internal consistency of MSQ, PCI, and PACI scores scales of MSQ applied to listed goals; Motivational structure questionnaire personal concerns inventory, variants and psychometric properties; Need for reliability and validity no system, reaching its full potential without a scientific basis; Psychometric properties of Motivational Structure Questionnaire (MSQ); Stability of MSQ like scores test retest correlations, five samples of patients, MSQ, PCI and PACI; Standard procedures for determining reliability interobserver agreement, test retest measures of stability; Test retest correlations of MSQ scores confounding reliability with stability of underlying construct; Validity, matter of truth in labeling measure's validity, with respect to a specific construct

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EID: 84880227209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979952.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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