Table 5.

Item response theory (IRT) reliability estimates for the Feeling Tone Questionnaire (FTQ) 13 item sets at varying levels of the attribute (theta) estimate based on results of the IRT analysis (IRTPRO) for total sample and race/ethnic subgroups

FTQ (Theta)	13 item set
	Total	Non-Hispanic White	Non-Hispanic Black	Hispanic
−2.8	0.82	0.83	0.81	0.79
−2.4	0.86	0.86	0.86	0.84
−2.0	0.89	0.88	0.89	0.87
−1.6	0.89	0.89	0.89	0.90
−1.2	0.89	0.90	0.89	0.90
−0.8	0.90	0.90	0.89	0.90
−0.4	0.90	0.90	0.89	0.90
0.0	0.89	0.89	0.90	0.90
0.4	0.87	0.86	0.89	0.89
0.8	0.83	0.81	0.85	0.86
1.2	0.77	0.75	0.80	0.81
1.6	0.70	0.69	0.74	0.74
Overall (Average)	0.85	0.85	0.86	0.86

Note: Reliability estimates are calculated for theta levels for which there are respondents