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Abstract
The Health-Sickness Rating Scale (HSRS), originally developed at the Menninger Foundation, was translated into French and Swedish and sent out to a relatively large group of clinicians in each of the two countries, and to a group of judges in the USA. Ratings of the 34 specimen cases were made blindly by 21 US, 62 French, and 21 Swedish clinicians for each of the seven subscales and the global rating scale of HSRS. The consistency among the judgments within each country was found to be very high (.81, .77, and .78 respectively). The consistency among the three national averages and the original Menninger judgments was found to be extremely high (.96) for the global rating. The results were interpreted to encourage further inquiries into the measurement properties and usefulness of the scale. The usefulness of HSRS as an international thermometer of mental health is strongly supported.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the second European meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1985.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the second European meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1985.
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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the second European meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1985.