Description
The DACL form one of a series of adjective check list scales. In 1960, Zuckerman published the Anxiety Adjective Check List; Lubin began developing the Depression Adjective Check Lists in 1963 and then collaborated with Zuckerman to incorporate the most discriminating items from the DACL into an expanded version of the anxiety check list, named the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL), which was published in 1964 (3). As well as anxiety and depression, this scale covers hostility, positive affect, and sensation-seeking. Subsequently, Zuckerman et al. collaborated to publish a revised version of the MAACL in 1983 (4). The DACL were derived from item analyses of 171 adjectives that connoted varying degrees of depression and elation (1, p5). The item analyses selected adjectives that distinguished depressed patients from unaffected people. The instrument was originally developed for a study