Parents' narratives illustrate their struggle to explain disability to their adolescent. Professionals are challenged to consider how to promote proactive conversations between parents and adolescents.
60 subjects representing equal numbers of repressors arid sensitizers were matched for age and sex and evaluated on three measures of anxiety which differed in time span in which anxiety was estimated. As expected, sensitizers reported significantly greater anxiety than repressors regardless of the proximity of the time on which they based their estimates. A significant interaction between reports of anxiety and repression-sensitization demonstrated that sensitizers report less anxiety when recording their current condition than remote remembrances, whereas repressors tend to report essentially the same level of anxiety regardless of whether they are estimating their anxiety over “a year or two,” “a month or two,” or “now.”
2 conceptual models of item ambiguity were evaluated with respect to the discrimination power and response direction of MMPI items. Interpretive ambiguity ratings and response ambiguity values were obtained on tie items in order to divide them into groups on the basis of ambiguity characteristics. A chi-square analysis indicated the presence of a low positive relationship between the 2 measures. The items were analyzed with respect to the number of scales on which they are keyed and in terms of their variability in response direction. It was expected that items high in interpretive ambiguity and low in response ambiguity would have greater discrimination power and would be more variable in keyed response direction. Both expectations were confirmed. The findings suggest that the distinction between interpretive and response ambiguity is a useful 1 one to consider in item-analysis procedures.
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