Psychometric Results of the Music Therapy Scale (MAKS) for Measuring Expression and Communication
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https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v2i1.235초록
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