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Volume 4 Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing Public Health Nursing 2018
September 19-20, 2018
September 19-20, 2018 Singapore
7th International Conference on
Public Health and Nursing
Dale M Hilty, J Comm Pub Health Nurs 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.4172/2471-9846-C1-003
Psychometric investigation and measurement of hunger and pleasure
Dale M Hilty
Mt. Carmel College of Nursing, USA
Fernandez’s (2001) Anger Parameters Scale (APS) conceptualizes anger activity according to frequency, duration, intensity,
latency and threshold. The first three of the five parameters are based on the Multidimensional Anger Inventory (MAI)
subscales while latency and thresholdmeasures are related to pain and other perceptual responses.Thus, we have five parameters
measuring: (1) How often one gets angry, (2) how long the anger lasts, (3) how strong the anger is, (4) how quick to anger
and (5) how sensitive to provocation. Cronbach reliability estimates for an adult community sample were 0.85 (frequency),
0.90 (duration), 0.62 (intensity), 0.88 (latency) and 0.74 (threshold). Five anger parameters were extracted with a Principal
Components Analysis (PCA). A separate PCA analysis based on the subscale inter-correlations led to a one-component solution
termed, the Degree of maladaptiveness of anger. The parameters are internally consistent and supported by preliminary factor
analytic investigation. Fernandez and colleagues (2014) report significant differences on the frequency, intensity and duration
scales with the forensic sample (N=125) having high scores on these three parameters than a non-forensic (N=182) samples.
The purpose of the educational intervention was to apply the Fernandez five parameters model (frequency, duration, intensity,
latency and threshold) to the constructs of hunger and pleasure. Participants were 130 traditional undergraduate nursing
students. Principal-axis factor analysis and Cronbach reliability estimates found two common factors were extracted for the
hunger and pleasure constructs with reliability coefficients above 0.80.
Biography
Dale M Hilty, Associate Professor at the Mt. Carmel College of Nursing. He has received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the Department of Psychology at
The Ohio State University. He has published studies in the areas of psychology, sociology and religion. Between April 2017 and April 2018, his ten research teams
published 55 posters at local, state, regional, national and international nursing conferences.