Clinical implications for a measure of mental health.

A measure of individual differences in personality integration.

“…Before outlining the present investigation, it seems appropriate to summarize, as background material, some of the theoretical positions and findings concerning the personality measure under consideration. These are discussed in some detail elsewhere (4,5,6,7) and we summarize here some of the more significant points only.…”

Pattern analysis: the configural approach to predictive measurement.

“…These considerations underlie much of the research undertaken by McQuitty (15,16,17) since his attempt in 1937 to differentiate between normal and psychiatric groups by the use of response patterns. Mc-Quitty's investigations constitute perhaps the most extensive attack made to date on the diagnostic significance of response patterns in personality questionnaires.…”

Chapter IV: The Socially Maladjusted

“…The relation of psychological theory to research in maladjustment is illustrated by McQuitty's (70,71) attempts to use factor matrices as a means of constructing a measure of mental health which would discriminate consistently between community persons and hospital patients.…”