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Peer reviewedBaer, Ruth A.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1995
Standard and supplementary scales designed to detect underreporting of symptoms on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the MMPI-2 were studied with 50 individuals who completed the MMPI-2 under fake-good instructions and 50 who had standard instructions. Two supplementary scales were valuable in discriminating standard from…
Descriptors: Adults, Identification, Personality Measures, Profiles
Peer reviewedDavies, Allison; And Others – Adolescence, 1987
Investigated sensitivity of Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) in assessing psychotic states in adolescents. Results from comparison of 29 psychotic and 58 nonpsychotic adolescent psychiatric inpatients suggest the need for a profile-analytic approach to PIC and MMPI interpretation in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Identification, Patients
Peer reviewedHuba, G. J.; Zachary, Robert A. – Journal of Drug Education, 1986
Shows how an empirical profile matching procedure applied to the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) of a client can be used to quantify the degree to which the client's personality profile is representative of a drug abusing group. Supplementary techniques show how reliable this judgment is and isolate reasons for discrepancies.…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, High Risk Persons, Identification
Bailey, Bruce E.; Butler, John W. – 1980
Information useful for the identification of child abusers was developed. Data initially collected provided feedback concerning the characteristics and attitudes of child abusers. An MMPI profile analysis was conducted in the second phase of the study. While 10 of the 15 subjects had one or more scale scores above T-70, the average group profile…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Child Abuse, Classification, Identification
