An extension of Hathaway's MMPI profile coding system.

Welsh, George S.

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“…The MMPI items refer, sometimes overlapping, to 3 validation scales and to 10 clinical scales. 31,32,33 Individual profiles for the validation scales were inspected in order to ensure the reliability of the tests. Then K-corrected T scores were calculated on the basis of the purified sample of Italian normals.…”

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Psychological Aspects of Weekend Headache Sufferers in Comparison with Migraine Patients

et al. 1989

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Sometimes the relaxation after stress may trigger a migraine attack. This is the principle that underlies that particular variant of migraine called "weekend headache". We hypothesize the presence in weekend headache prone subjects of a particular psychological background, different from that of common migraine sufferers. In order to detect possible differences supporting our hypothesis, we studied 104 new outpatients: 46 patients suffering from headache only on weekends (23 males and 23 females) and 58 matched common migraineurs (26 males and 32 females) with no weekend predilection. The psychological assessment was performed using the following psychometric tools: MMPI, BDI, STAIX1-X2. A clinical assessment of each patient was also carried out. Significant differences were found after statistically analyzing the test results. Most of the MMPI scales were found to be more elevated in both male and female weekend headache sufferers. From a clinical point of view, the weekend headache attacks proved to be similar to those of common migraine, but with a significantly higher incidence of concomitant symptoms. Our study confirms the important role that psychological factors play in the pathogenesis and clinical development of migraine and leads us to conclude that a psychic tension component is associated with the vascular one in weekend headache.

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Psychological Aspects of Weekend Headache Sufferers in Comparison with Migraine Patients

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“…A Welsh (16) code' was assigned to the overall mean profile for the clinic mothers. This code 3467208195 can be compared with the mean rank profiles for clinic mothers reported by Hanvik (9) 3462780159 and Marks (13) 3426071859.…”

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MMPI profiles of the parents of behaviorally disturbed children and parents from the general population

1966

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This set of analyses is but one example of how Q sort data may lead to analyses yielding information about intra-individual personality patterns. Thc intercsted personalit>y researcher undoubtedly will think of many sets of assumptions built around different Q sort structures. To the extent that patterns derived in this manner are replicablc within specified groups, this approach provides a worthwhile extension of iioriiiativc iiieasurcment. As an example of this, Nahinsky ) denionstrated that estimates of p(c) derived froni intra-sort patterns revealed significant differcriccs between diagnostic groups for this masure. The groups rcprcscnting psychiatric diagnoses showed higher average 1' ( c ) values than did the general popu1at.ion controls for the ideal self sort, suggrsting a greater conflict of values for disturbed individuals than for normals. Thus a measure accessible only to intraindividual analysis resulted in a significant bctwcen-groups variation.Nahinsky (') reported an analysis of variance model for Q sort data involving inter-group difference which enables ail integration with the study of intra-individual patterns. A coxisideration of cach individual as a replicable cxpcrimcrit can lead to a cumulative classification of individuals by types of patterns. The approach coiisidcrcd here might thus lead to series of rcplicablc individual experiments corresponding to typrs with cach cxpcrinicnt providing its own statistical criteria. This in t,urn could bring the more traditional group analyses into the picture. In vicw of the fact that students of personality view it in the context of an intraindividual systciii, would this not be a more direct strategy? REFERENCES 1. 3. 4. NAHINSKY, I. 1). Q sort approaches in stiirlyingsex, socioeconomic status, and psychopathological NAHINSKY, I. 1). The analysis of v:rriance of Q sort data. J . exp. Educ. (in press). RAWN, M. L. An experimental study of transference and resistance phenomonea in psycho~TErHENSoN, w. T h e S t d y of Behavior. PROBLEMConsidcrahlc c h f f ort has been devoted to assessing thc personality characteristics of parents of emotionally disturbed children as a prime aspect of the child's socialization milieu. The MMPI has heen used for this purpose with increasing frequency as thv iiccd for a validated objective method which lends itself to routine clinic use has become more apparent. Six studies usirig thc MMPI have found reliable diff crcnc(~s bctwcw t hc parcrils of disl urbcd children and parents of control groups(', 2 p 7 * 9 b 12* 1 3 ) . Orily the last tbrcc have bccri published. While these studies cross validate cach other wc. 11 on this lypc of finding, Liverant's('*) attempt to cstahlish relationships between parwts' hIR/IPI profiles and four groups of their disturbcd children classcd by typc of sympl om was unsuccessful and Ha~ivik's(~) siriiiiar attempt rcsultctd in only a few suggcstivc findings.The prcscwt study had two major aims: a) to compare the MMPI profiles of parciits of clinically disturbed childion with thosc of paren...

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“…We asked raters how accurately their clients were described by interpretations based on each of seven codetypes, including the target codetype and six foil codetypes. We wished to evaluate the accuracy ratings against an easily calculated measure of codetype proximity, one that is consistent both with the target codetype selection strategy and the profile's Welsh (1948) code. We therefore assigned a proximity score to the target codetype and to each of the six foil codetypes for each profile.…”

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“…However, in that study the alternate coding strategies did not necessarily assign the highest rank to the target codetype. In the "Method" section we describe a novel coding strategy that permits the assignment of a score to every possible codetype, very much in parallel with the profile's Welsh (1948) code. We use the resulting codetype proximity scores to assess the relationship between codetype accuracy ratings and codetype proximity, or the codetype's nearness to the profile's actual clinical scale scores.…”

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Codetype-Based Interpretation of the MMPI–2 in an Outpatient Psychotherapy Sample

Koffmann¹

2014

Journal of Personality Assessment

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In an evaluation of the codetype-based interpretation of the MMPI-2, 48 doctoral student psychotherapists rated their clients' (N = 120) standardized interpretations as more accurate when based on the profile's codetype, in comparison with ratings for interpretations based on alternate codetypes. Effect sizes ranged from nonsignificant to large, depending on the degree of proximity between the profile's codetype and the alternate codetype. There was weak evidence to suggest that well-defined profiles yielded more accurate interpretations than undefined profiles. It appears that codetype-based interpretation of the MMPI-2 is generally valid, but there might be little difference in the accuracy of interpretations based on nearby codetypes.

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An extension of Hathaway's MMPI profile coding system.

Cited by 60 publications

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Psychological Aspects of Weekend Headache Sufferers in Comparison with Migraine Patients

Psychological Aspects of Weekend Headache Sufferers in Comparison with Migraine Patients

MMPI profiles of the parents of behaviorally disturbed children and parents from the general population

Codetype-Based Interpretation of the MMPI–2 in an Outpatient Psychotherapy Sample

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