Boolean analysis of awareness training

Abstract

Data from 2 questionnaires designed to scale responses to interview questions were analyzed by conversion to dichotomies and application of Boolean function analysis. Ss were 55 counselors in a state employment service. Patterns of response were represented by Boolean minterms and reduced to minimum prime implicants. Resulting functions reveal that responses to one questionnaire shifted from interpretive, probing, evaluative, or supportive patterns before training, to understanding or evaluative (but not supportive or probing) after training. Responses to the other questionnaire shifted from shallow, content, and interpretive before training, to reflective, interpretive, and content (but not shallow) after training. It is concluded that Boolean analysis avoids the need for assumptions of additivity, linearity, and independence. In cases where standard scaling procedures involve nonlinear interactions among scales, Boolean analysis may provide a logically valid means of demonstrating treatment effects,. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)