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. Th...
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| author | Aurelio José Figueredo Rafael Antonio Garcia J. Michael Menke W. Jake Jacobs Paul Robert Gladden JeanMarie Bianchi Emily Anne Patch Connie J. A. Beck Phillip S. Kavanagh Marcela Sotomayor-Peterson Yunfan Jiang Norman P. Li |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-072d912584bd4d22bfe11ef5cd8435292022-12-21T22:41:01ZengSAGE PublishingEvolutionary Psychology1474-70492017-02-011510.1177/147470491667627610.1177_1474704916676276The K-SF-42Aurelio José Figueredo0Rafael Antonio Garcia1J. Michael Menke2W. Jake Jacobs3Paul Robert Gladden4JeanMarie Bianchi5Emily Anne Patch6Connie J. A. Beck7Phillip S. Kavanagh8Marcela Sotomayor-Peterson9Yunfan Jiang10Norman P. Li11 Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA A. T. Still Research Institute, A. T. Still University, Mesa, AZ, USA Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Department of Psychology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA, USA Division of Integrated Sciences, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, USA Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Department of Psychology and Communication, University of Sonora, Sonora, Mexico School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, SingaporeThe 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.https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704916676276 |
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