Reliability, validity, and clinical application of the Visual Analogue Mood Scale

The reliability and validity of the Visual Analogue Mood Scale (VAMS) has been demonstrated in both a military and a private psychiatric hospital, inpatient population. The repeated and concurrent administration of the VAMS and the Digit-Symbol test identifies a mood-performance correlation which distinguishes patients with affective disorders, of manic or depressed type, from other psychiatric patients.

State and trait anxiety in voluntary withdrawal of student naval aviators from flight training

The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was administered to 316 student naval aviators, 68 of whom dropped out of the flight program within the first 6 mo. of their training. These students who dropped out of the program were significantly more anxious as measured by the STAI A-State and A-Trait scales; the higher the A-State score, the earlier the students dropped.

Status congruency and mental health

This study evaluated a status-congruency model in relationship to effective military performance after psychiatric contact and compared the status-congruency score distributions for psychiatric outpatients with those for non-psychiatric controls. The congruency scores contributed uniquely to the prediction of post-outpatient-contact performance, accounting for a significant amount of the criterion variance beyond a linear combination of its components. The outpatients who were congruent or who exhibited accelerated promotions were more effective than their underachieving, outpatient peers. Score distribution comparisons indicated that the outpatient-contact group had fewer accelerated achievers and more negatively incongruent members than non-psychiatric controls.