Further Evaluation Of The Reliability And Validity Of The Calm Scale For Assessing The Tactile Comfort Of Fabrics

Abstract

To provide further assessment of the reliability and validity of the Comfort Affect Labeled Magnitude (CALM) scale andto expand the knowledge base of the comfort assessment of fabrics, this study was composed of three experiments. Experiment 1 was a strict replication of the original Natick work on comfort assessment of fabrics for military use with the goal of providing an additional assessment of the reliability of measurement of the CALM scale. Experiment 2extended use of the CALM scale to a wider variety of fabrics. In Experiment 3, the construct validity of the collected CALM data was further assessed by a comparison of fabrics rankings for comfort derived by a different methodology: direct paired comparisons of fabric samples. In this study, the rankings derived from these direct paired comparisons were compared to the rankings obtained from the CALM data to provide an alternative measure of validity. The studies confirmed the two key psychometric properties of reliability and construct validity for the Comfort Affect Labeled Magnitude Scale

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 11, 2022
Accession Number
AD1156766

Entities

People

  • John D. Pierce

Organizations

  • Philadelphia University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Clothing
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Fabrics
  • First Responders
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Medical Personnel
  • Perception
  • Questionnaires
  • Reliability
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Textiles

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Materials Science
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.