Assessing the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) in Adolescents: New MMPI-A Scales.

McNulty, John L.; Harkness, Allan R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Williams, Carolyn L.

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Publication Date: 1997

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Assessing the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) in Adolescents: New MMPI-A Scales.

McNulty, John L.; Harkness, Allan R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Williams, Carolyn L.

Psychological Assessment, v9 n3 p250-59 Sep 1997

The development of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) scales to measure the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), a model of personality, is reported. Preliminary scales were refined with the MMPI-A normative sample of 1,620 and a clinical sample of 713 adolescents, and their construct validity was supported. (SLD)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Construct Validity, Models, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Psychopathology, Test Construction

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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