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Peer reviewedBeutler, Larry E.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Male patients complaining of impotence (N=32) were administered the Male Impotence Test (MIT) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The results suggested that the MIT is without value for differentiating between psychogenic and biogenic impotence, whereas two rules from the MMPI appropriately classified 90 percent of the…
Descriptors: Males, Personality Measures, Physical Health, Prediction
Peer reviewedRader, Charles M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
In this study, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of exposer (n=36), rapist (n=47), and assaulter (n=46) groups were investigated and compared. The most disturbed group, the rapists, had MMPI K-corrected mean raw scale scores that were significantly greater than those of the exposer group on many scales. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Criminals, Individual Differences, Personality Development
Peer reviewedPenk, W. E.; And Others – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
Racial bias in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was investigated by comparing responses of Black and White compulsive heroin users on both empirically derived validity and clinical scales and intuitively constructed content scales. The results suggest that ethnicity is an influential subject background characteristic.…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Personality Measures, Psychopathology, Racial Characteristics
Peer reviewedNewmark, Charles S.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
The standard form Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and two abbreviated forms were compared with direct measures of psychopathology obtained from the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS). The multiple correlation coefficients between the BPRS ratings and the corresponding MMPI and abbreviated-form scales were significantly high…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Measurement Instruments, Measurement Techniques, Mental Disorders
Peer reviewedKoss, Mary P.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
The theoretical foundation and empirical performance of two sets of "critical items" that are a common feature of most automated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory interpretations are examined. These items purportedly alert the clinician to serious pathology and is a scale of general maladjustment. The critical items resulted in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Clinical Diagnosis, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedMcCreary, Charles; Mensh, Ivan N. – Journal of Gerontology, 1977
This study compared the MMPI profiles of law offenders (N=362) at different ages to examine personality changes associated with aging and to assess certain clinically derived impressions about patterns of personality disturbance in older vs. younger offenders. The greater the age difference between groups, the larger were the personality…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Criminals
Download full textOrr, Prudie L.; Cochran, Samuel W. – 1969
This article describes research conducted to determine the influence of parental personality characteristics on the delinquent behavior of adolescent boys. Two groups of parents (N=18 couples, each group) were administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Experimental couples' sons had been recognized by the juvenile courts as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency Causes, Delinquent Behavior, Family Life
Peer reviewedDonnelly, Edward F.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory admission and remission profiles were compared in a group of 34 patients hospitalized for depression. Relatively normal profiles for the bipolar group and abnormal profiles for the unipolar group significantly differentiated the two groups at admission, but, with one exception, the differences dissipated…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Comparative Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Depression (Psychology)
