Author
Figueredo, Aurelio JoséGarcia, Rafael Antonio
Menke, J. Michael
Jacobs, W. Jake
Gladden, Paul Robert
Bianchi, JeanMarie
Patch, Emily Anne
Beck, Connie J. A.
Kavanagh, Phillip S.
Sotomayor-Peterson, Marcela
Jiang, Yunfan
Li, Norman P.
Affiliation
Univ Arizona, Dept Psychol, Coll SciIssue Date
2017-01
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The K-SF-42 2017, 15 (1):147470491667627 Evolutionary PsychologyJournal
Evolutionary PsychologyRights
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
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.Note
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1474-70491474-7049
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1474704916676276ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/1474704916676276