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A Reliability Generalization Study Of The Brief Symptom Inventory-18, Dareen Taha Alzahrani
A Reliability Generalization Study Of The Brief Symptom Inventory-18, Dareen Taha Alzahrani
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Reliability generalization (RG) is a meta-analytic method that aims to assess the variability of test score reliability across studies and identify the sources of this variability. In this study, a reliability generalization analysis was performed on studies of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18) to examine the variability in Cronbach's alpha reliability estimates reported in the literature. This inventory was chosen because of its extensive use in counseling and medical settings and documented reliability and validity. The database that was consulted to collect articles was PsycInfo. The reported Cronbach's alphas were obtained to assess whether defined moderator variables affected reliability estimates. …