Harris A
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1980 Jun;8(2):213-20. doi: 10.1007/BF00919065.
This study addressed the problem of response class as it relates to coercive child behavior. Guttman scale analyses were used to determine if there were regular, unidimensional progressions across eight coercive response categories; that children who performed high probability coercive behaviors would also tend to perform all of the lower probability coercive behaviors. Rank-order correlations were done to determine if there was consistency in the response class across settings. Two samples of boys were observed in two school settings, classroom and playground. One sample was a derivation sample of 26 boys, the second a replication sample of 27 boys. Reproducibility coefficients for the derivation sample were .92 for the classroom Guttman scale analysis and .93 for the playground analysis. For the cross-validation sample the reproducibility coefficients were .94 in both settings. Rank-order correlations across settings and done in terms of the number of subjects performing each of the coercive responses were .971 (df = 6, p < .001) for the derivation sample and .996 (df = 6, p < .001) for the cross-validation sample. It was concluded that the eight coercive responses observed appeared to constitute a response class, i.e., the ordering the responses was transitive across subjects, and that the coercive response hierarchy was stable across school settings for groups of children.
本研究探讨了与强迫性儿童行为相关的反应类别问题。采用古特曼量表分析来确定在八个强迫性反应类别中是否存在规则的、单维的进展；即表现出高概率强迫行为的儿童也倾向于表现出所有低概率的强迫行为。进行等级相关分析以确定不同情境下反应类别是否具有一致性。在两种学校情境（教室和操场）中观察了两组男孩样本。一个样本是由26名男孩组成的衍生样本，第二个样本是由27名男孩组成的复制样本。衍生样本在教室古特曼量表分析中的再现系数为0.92，在操场分析中的再现系数为0.93。交叉验证样本在两种情境下的再现系数均为0.94。在不同情境下，根据做出每种强迫性反应的受试者数量进行的等级相关分析，衍生样本的相关系数为0.971（自由度=6，p<0.001），交叉验证样本的相关系数为0.996（自由度=6，p<0.001）。研究得出结论，观察到的八种强迫性反应似乎构成一个反应类别，即反应的排序在受试者之间具有传递性，并且强迫性反应层次结构在不同学校情境下对于儿童群体是稳定的。
