Assessing the inter-coder reliability of the Body Type Dictionary (BTD)

Computer-assisted content analysis has many advantages compared to a manual scoring system, provided that computerised dictionaries represent valid and reliable measures. This study aimed to assess the inter-coder reliability, alternate- form reliability and scoring consistency of the Body Type Dict...

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Published in:ICAME journal Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 5 - 33
Main Author: Cariola, Laura A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Bergen Sciendo 28.04.2014
De Gruyter Brill Sp. z o.o., Paradigm Publishing Services
Subjects:
Body shape
Computational linguistics
Computer generated language analysis
Content analysis
Dictionaries
Human body
Imagery
Penetration
Personality
Personality traits
Reliability
Responses
Rorschach Test
Scores
ISSN:1502-5462, 0801-5775, 1502-5462
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Summary:Computer-assisted content analysis has many advantages compared to a manual scoring system, provided that computerised dictionaries represent valid and reliable measures. This study aimed to assess the inter-coder reliability, alternate- form reliability and scoring consistency of the Body Type Dictionary (BTD) (Wilson 2006) based on Fisher and Cleveland’s (1956, 1958) manual body boundary scoring scheme. The results indicated an acceptable inter-coder agreement with barrier and penetration imagery in the sub-sample (N = 53) of manually coded Rorschach responses. Additionally manually coded scores showed an acceptable correlation with the computerised frequency counts, and thus indicating an alternate-form reliability. In the full data set (N = 526), barrier imagery in the Rorschach responses only correlated with the picture response test, showing low scoring consistency, which might disconfirm the notion of body boundary awareness representing a stable personality trait but instead it might be dependent on the level of cognitive dedifferentiation.
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ISSN:1502-5462
0801-5775
1502-5462
DOI:10.2478/icame-2014-0001