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| Preliminary Checkout on the Reliability and Validity of Nuclear and Radiation Effect Psychological Effect Rating Scale (NRERS) |
| YIN Zhong-wei, XIE Huai-jiang, YANG Cheng-jun, et al |
| Shenyang Military Centre of Disease Control, Shenyang 110034 China |
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Abstract Objective To preliminarily evaluate the reliability and validity of the NRPES.Methods NRPES,SDS and SAS were applied to assess the psychological sate of 352 soldiers,80 soldiers were randomly selected to determine with NRPES again,which at last contribute to assess the reliability and validity of NRPES.Results The satisfactory reliability and Cronbach a coefficient respectively were 0.756 and 0.698.The sixth and eighth factor of the principal component analysis are combined together to a new factor,the results indicate the constructive validity is adaptive to the primary design of the questionnaire.NRPES and its 7 factors have a greater significant relation and the correlation coefficient which is from 0.569~0.878.There is a great significant correlation between the NRPES,factor x1,x2,x3 and SDS,SAS,the correlation coefficient of which are over 0.5.Conclusion Though NRPES has some shortcomings,which need to be improved late,NRPES has a better reliability and validity through the preliminary checkout.
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Received: 17 September 2008
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