Assessing Frontal Lobe behavioral syndromes with the Frontal Lobe Personality Scale

Janet Grace; Julie C. Stout; Paul F. Malloy

doi:10.1177/107319119900600307

Assessing Frontal Lobe behavioral syndromes with the Frontal Lobe Personality Scale

Janet Grace, Julie C. Stout, Paul F. Malloy

Psychology

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Abstract

Reliability and construct validity are reported for the Frontal Lobe Personality Scale (FLOPS), a brief neurobehavior rating scale. The FLOPS Family form was completed by family members of 24 frontal lobe brain-damaged patients, 15 non-frontal lobe brain-damaged patients, and 48 healthy controls. Intrascale reliability was demonstrated (internal consistency .96; split half .93). Validity studies of frontal lobe patients post-lesion compared to their pre-lesion status, to healthy controls, and of frontal lobe patients pre-and post-lesion compared to non-frontal lobe patients pre- and post-lesion, indicated that frontal lobe patients post-lesion showed significantly more "frontal" behavior than (a) pre-lesion frontal lobe patients, (b) healthy controls, and (c) post-lesion non-frontal lobe patients. The FLOPS appears to be useful for quantifying frontal lobe behavior in clinical and research settings.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	269-284
Number of pages	16
Journal	Assessment
Volume	6
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/107319119900600307
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1999

Keywords

Frontal lobe
Head injury
Neuropsychological test
Personality test
Stroke

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