high
values
for
skewness
and
kurtosis
unlike the composite scale
whose frequency distribution more closely approximated a normal distribution. In addition, while the inter-correlations among the individual
scales were mostly of small magnitude (viz. between 0.00 and 0.30)
each subscale was more strongly associated with the total composite
score (r between 0.49 and 0.67). The alpha coefficient for this composite
scale was 0.93.