Un approccio innovativo al testing psicopatologico: Taleia parte I: Validità di contenuto e scale di controllo

Studies content validity of TALEI A (Test for AxiaL Evaluation and Interview for Clinical, Personnel, and Guidance Applications), focusing on construction methods. Evidence is given for expert agreement about relevance to nosographies (DSM -IV & ICD-10), psychometric grounds underlying the validity scales, independence from linguistic competence and verbal intelligence. Nosographic categories were reduced to the ones of above average importance in the experts’ (N = 29) assessment. Diagnostic indicators were evaluated by a different panel (N = 27) mostly as «useful» (93%) or «seldom useful» (5%), agreement varying between 100% and 79%. Correlations with intelligence test showed significant only for ten items, therefore excluded from the data bank. The test readability was verified in a quasi-clinical setting (national sample of small groups, N = 410), and on a large national sample (N = 4070) of draftees. The few words «linguistically difficult» in two or more samples were substituted. In the large sample less than 1% of Ss. omitted or not clearly answered one or more items. TALEI A appears as a potentially sound instrument to be further investigated.