AI Article Synopsis

  • The article introduces the K-SF-42, a new short version of the 199-item Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB), which has 42 items compared to the popular 20-item Mini-K.
  • This new version aims to improve psychometric performance by directly analyzing data from a five-nation cross-cultural survey originally focused on life history strategy and interpersonal aggression.
  • A unique method called the Cross-Sample Geometric Mean was employed to ensure the K-SF-42 is culturally valid and potentially applicable to other modern industrial societies.

Article Abstract

The purpose of the present article is to propose an alternative short form for the 199-item Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB), which we are calling the K-SF-42, as it contains 42 items as compared with the 20 items of the Mini-K, the short form that has been in greatest use for the past decade. These 42 items were selected from the ALHB, unlike those of the Mini-K, making direct comparisons of the relative psychometric performance of the two alternative short forms a valid and instructive exercise. A series of secondary data analyses were performed upon a recently completed five-nation cross-cultural survey, which was originally designed to assess the role of life history strategy in the etiology of interpersonal aggression. Only data from the ALHB that were collected in all five cross-cultural replications were used for the present analyses. The single immediate objective of this secondary data analysis was producing the K-SF-42 such that it would perform optimally across all five cultures sampled, and perhaps even generalize well to other modern industrial societies not currently sampled as a result of the geographic breadth of those included in the present study. A novel method, based on the use of the Cross-Sample Geometric Mean as a criterion for item selection, was used for generating such a cross-culturally valid short form.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10480873PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704916676276DOI Listing

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