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Peer reviewedBloomquist, Michael L.; Harris, William G. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1984
Administered three Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) family scales and three criterion family scales to undergraduates (N=110). Findings suggested that the MMPI family scales are reliable and concurrently valid measures of an individual's perception of interpersonal family relationships. (LLL)
Descriptors: College Students, Family Problems, Family Relationship, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPlotkin, Ron C.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Discussed the utility of a measure of aggression using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Although child abusers significantly differed from a distressed and socioeconomic status-matched group on this scale, a discriminative analysis on the scale failed to adequately differentiate the groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Abuse, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Testing
Peer reviewedBathurst, Kay; Gottfried, Allen W.; Gottfried, Adele E. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) norms based on 508 child custody litigations are presented. Defensive underreporting and self-favorability were often exhibited along with an elevation on the Over-Controlled Hostility Scale. Results highlight the importance of context specificity in personality assessment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Custody, Children, Context Effect, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedPatterson, G.R. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1980
Used coercion theory to investigate aversive mother- child interactions. Literature indicated younger children produced higher rates of aversive interactions with their mothers. Mothers' role satisfaction varied as a function of such rates. Observation data showed mothers of aggressive children encountered higher rates of aversive interactions…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Child Rearing, Family Problems
