Psychometric Results of the Music Therapy Scale (MAKS) for Measuring Expression and Communication

Authors

  • Dorothee von Moreau Dr. rer. medic., music therapist (bvm, DMtG), Dipl. Psychologist
  • Heiner Ellgring Dr. rer. nat., Dipl. Psychologist
  • Kirstin Goth Dr. phil. nat., Dipl. Psychologist
  • Fritz Poustka Prof. Dr. med., professor emeritus
  • David Aldridge PhD, FRSM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v2i1.235

Abstract

The Music Therapy Rating Scale (MAKS), originally developed in 1996, was evaluated again in 2009 using a sample of 62 children from a psychiatric unit and from different primary schools, with measures at three different time points during therapy process. The scale is intended as an objective rating of a client’s musical behavior. The evaluation of the scale was to determine any possible ambiguity or weakness in the discriminatory power of the scale items. After excluding such items, the results show high reliability (a > .75) and good objectivity with trained raters (r > .70) for the two main scales and a significant sensitivity to change.

Keywords

musical communication, musical expression, music therapy, rating scale MAKS

Author Biographies

Dorothee von Moreau, Dr. rer. medic., music therapist (bvm, DMtG), Dipl. Psychologist

Dorothee von Moreau, Dr. rer. medic., music therapist (bvm, DMtG), Dipl. Psychologist, is a psychological psychotherapist with clinical practice at the University Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Würzburg and Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and chairperson of the postgraduate music therapy training BWM at the Freies Musikzentrum in Munich, Germany.

Heiner Ellgring, Dr. rer. nat., Dipl. Psychologist

Heiner Ellgring, Dr. rer. nat., Dipl. Psychologist, is a professor at the InstituteforPsychology,UniversityofWu ̈ rzburg,Wu ̈ rzburg, Germany.

Kirstin Goth, Dr. phil. nat., Dipl. Psychologist

Kirstin Goth, Dr. phil. nat., Dipl. Psychologist, is a psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy for Children and Young Adults at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Fritz Poustka, Prof. Dr. med., professor emeritus

Fritz Poustka, Prof. Dr. med., professor emeritus, Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy for Children and Young Adults at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

David Aldridge, PhD, FRSM

David Aldridge, PhD, FRSM, is codirector of Nordoff-Robbins- Zentrum, Witten, Germany.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2010)

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