Normative Data for the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List

The development of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL) has been described previously ( 1 ) . Table 1 presents data for 2 normal samples and 5 psychiatric samples. The job applicant sample was drawn from a population of 1200 job applicants at the Indiana University Medical Center personnel office. These 200 Ss were stratified by age, sex, and education to match the census distribution of these variables. The college students were obtained from introductory psychology classes at Adelphi College in New York. Two samples of psychiatric patients were obtained from Larue D. Carter Memorial Hospital in Indiana; another sample of patients was tested at Central Islip Hospital in New York, and 2 samples of V.A. patients were obtained from the Mr. Alto V.A. in Washington, D. C., and the St. Cloud V.A. Hospital in Minnesota. All patients, except those from St. Cloud V.A., were tested within a few weeks after admission. The St. Cloud patients were part of a drug srudy and were rested after the completion of drug treatment. The Mr. Alco V.A. patients were retested with the MAACL 8 days after the first test. Significant differences berween normal and patient samples are indicated.