Emotional Balance Scale
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Bradburn
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Internal State Scale (ISS; Bauer et al., 1991) The ISS is a 15-item self-report scale using a visual analogue scale approach. The scale seems to work well even when patients are manic or hypomanic. Patients respond to various items (e.g., “Today I feel irritable,” “Today I feel…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 54%
“Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS; Sheehan, 1983) The SDS is a composite of three self-rated items designed to measure the extent to which three major sectors in the patient’s life—work, social life, and family life—are impaired by psychiatric symptoms. Despite its brevity, the…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 50%
“4 foreboding 5 “scared” 6 “tearing me apart” 7 “brave face” 8 fear dispelled 9 So, the first three days were just tension, tension, tension, making sure I was filling the syringe right, giving it to him correctly, making sure there was no bad reactions to the medication. 10 He…”
— Coding Manual Qualitative Researchersmatch 49%
Resources: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groups · Coding Manual Qualitative Researchers