Application of the MMPI in Differentiating A.W.O.L. Recidivists from Non-Recidivists

A scale for measuring work attitude for the MMPI.

“…4.1). 1 To save printing costs, a 3-page table listing the 37 items in the Work Attitude Scale has been deposited with the ADI Auxiliary Publications Project. Order Document No.…”

Personality Correlates of Extent versus Type of Antisocial Behavior among Adult Offenders: A Mulitvariate Analysis

“…Concomitantly, numerous studies have been clonducted in which there has been an attempt to identify associaltions between personality patterns and criminological variables. Especially frequent have been efforts to differentiate among offenders who have been classified according to the type or seriousness of their most recent antisocial behavior (Blackburn, 1968 ;Ruck & Graham, 1978;Carroll & Fuller, 1971;Davis C Sines, 1971;Deiker, 1974;Holland & Holt, 1975 ;McCreary, 1976 ;Megargee & Meindelsohn, 1962;Panton, 1958;Persons & Narks, 1971;Rader, 1977), although studies of first offenders versus recidivists (Bauer & Clark, 1976;Christensen & LeUnes, 1974;Clark, 1948;Dunhxm, 1954;Flanagan & Lewis, 1974;Panton, 1959Panton, , 1962a and probationparole violators versus nonviolators (Gough, Wenk, & Rozynko, 1965;Jacobson & Wirt, 1969;Mack, 1969;Mandel & Barron, 1966;Panton, 1962b ;Smith & Lanyon, 1968) have also often been reported.…”

The Correlates of AWOL: 30 Years of Research into the Problem of AWOL in the U. S. Army

“…Anderson also found that a small number of men who went AWOL were openly trying for discharge , which he identified as a part of the AWOL recidivism problem . Clark (1948) developed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ( MNPI) AWOL Recidivist Scale , which consisted of 24 items from the MMPI that discriminated between AWOL recidivists and nonrecidivists . Clark (1949) used the AWOL Recidivist Scale to study 100 soldiers who had gone AWOL from a unit destined for overseas .…”