Psychometric properties of Attentional Control Scale: The preliminary study on a Polish sample

• Authors: Fajkowska Malgorzata , Derryberry Douglas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The presented study was focused primarily on a psychometric analysis of the Attentional Control Scale (ACS), but they also enhanced the understanding of the role of effortful attentional skills in determining the individual well-being, general adaptation or emotional disorders. The analyses included basic item and scale descriptions as well as convergent and discriminant validity. 218 Polish undergraduate students completed the battery of the self-report techniques and two paper - pencil attentional tests. Data revealed a unidimensional of a 20-item ACS. It can be used validly to assess long-term individual differences in attentional skills related to the voluntary executive functions. The analysis of content, internal and construct validity as well as reliability provided evidence of the scale's significant convergent and discriminant validity when correlated with attentional tests and other personality techniques. We found strong, systematic relations between the attentional control and selected measures of temperament, arousal, emotionality, and motivation. The results allow assuming that good attentional control, may protect individuals from the emotional disorders by regulating perceptual, conceptual, and response processing.

Keywords

EN

ATTENTIONAL CONTROL SCALE; EFFORTFUL ATTENTIONAL CONTROL; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; WELL-BEING

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-7
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Fajkowska Malgorzata

author

Derryberry Douglas

• Malgorzata Fajkowska, Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences; Douglas Derryberry, Oregon State University, USA

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA091221