@article{d71e3f88d39a49da8ce5e71813dcf14a,
title = "The Children's Affective Lability Scale: A psychometric evaluation of reliability",
abstract = "The Children's Affective Lability Scale (CALS) is a 20-item parent report measure developed to assess affect regulation in children aged 6-16. It was normed with school children in regular education classrooms and with children hospitalized in a psychiatric facility. Internal-consistency reliability, split-half reliability, and two-week test-retest reliability were excellent. Staff interrater reliability in the psychiatric sample was acceptable. Higher CALS scores were observed in an in-patient psychiatric sample than in either an out-patient or a normative sample. A principal components factor analysis yielded two components for the normative sample.",
keywords = "adolescence, affect regulation, children, mood lability",
author = "Gerson, {Arlene C} and Gerring, {Joan P.} and Lisa Freund and Joshi, {Paramjit T.} and Joseph Capozzoli and Kathy Brady and Denckla, {Martha B.}",
note = "Funding Information: This researchw as supportedb y National Institute of Mental Health Grant K20 MH00997-01 (Gerring),M H19677( Freund).P artial fundingw as also provided by The Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Mental Retardation Research Center grant no. NICHD lP30HD24061 (Denckla and Gerson). The authors are grateful to Gloria Engnoth, Ph.D., George T. Gabriel, Ph.D., Harry Fogle, Ph.D., and Mrs. Susan German for their assistancein subject recruitment.V aluable critiques and support were obtained from Keith J. Slifer, Ph.D., and Anne Riley, Ph.D. Parts of this article were presenteda t the annualm eetingo f the American Academyo f Child and AdolescentP sychiatry,S an Antonio, Texas, October 1993.",
year = "1996",
month = dec,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1016/S0165-1781(96)02851-X",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "65",
pages = "189--198",
journal = "Psychiatry research",
issn = "0165-1781",
publisher = "Elsevier Ireland Ltd",
number = "3",
}