The CAL: An MMPI alcoholism scale for general medical patients

The Common Alcohol Logistic‐Revised (CAL‐R) scale was developed for use with MMPI or MMPI‐2 with medical patients. It was derived from the Common Alcohol Logistic (CAL) scale and developed by (1) dropping the six CAL items deleted from the MMPI during construction of the MMPI‐2 and recomputing item weights (using logistic regression); (2) calculating norms; and (3) repeating the validation procedure used in developing CAL. We used the same criterion group (1,221 alcoholics) and same contrast sample (7,621 nonalcoholic medical patients) used for CAL. Comparison of receiver operating characteristic curves, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for CAL and CAL‐R indicates that the latter has the same favorable ability to screen medical patients for alcoholism as the former.

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The common alcohol logistic-revised scale (CAL-R): A revised alcoholism scale for the MMPI and MMPI-2

Malinchoc

Offord

Colligan

et al. 1994

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Examination of the reliability and validity of the personality assessment inventory

Boyle

Lennon

1994

J Psychopathol Behav Assess

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The reliability, discriminant validity, and construct validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) -a multidimensional self-report measure of abnormal personality traits-were examined within the Australian context. Subjects included 151 normal individuals, 30 alcoholics, and 30 schizophrenic patients. A subsample of 70 non-psychiatric adults responded to the PAI items twice over a test-retest interval of 28 days. The resulting median retest coefficient was 0. 7, indicating less than optimal stability. The median alpha (KR 21 coefficient was 0.8, suggesting rather narrow measurement scales. A significant multivariate main effect was obtained across groups after the effects of age and gender were removed. Multiple comparisons for each of the PAI scales revealed significant differences between the respective groups, as discussed. A higher-order scale factoring did not strongly support the purported PAI structure. In reanalyses of the correlation matrices included in the Professional Manual, the purported PAI factor structure was unable to be replicated for the standardization clinical sample (N = 1246), and a confirmatory factor analysis using the normative (validation) correlational data (N = 1000) revealed poor fit indices, raising further concerns about construct validity.

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Clinical utility of the MMPI research scales in the assessment of adolescent acting out behaviors.

Basham¹

1992

Psychological Assessment

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The substantial number of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) research scales developed during the last 50 years provides a unique opportunity to compare the practical value of a large number of related scales and the methodologies used to develop them. To this end, the concurrent validity of 93 MMPI scales as measures of acting out (aggressiveness, chemical dependence, delinquency, family conflict, and school behavior problems) was evaluated in a sample of 327 adolescent inpatients. Results generally support the construct validity of the Psychopathic Deviate (Pd) scale but also reveal several research scales that function well as broad measures of acting out. There were, however, relatively few scales that were narrowly related to specific behavioral tendencies. Scales consisting of exclusively of face-valid items generally performed better in this regard than did scales including "subtle" items, and they appear to have greater clinical utility with this population.

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The CAL: An MMPI alcoholism scale for general medical patients

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The common alcohol logistic-revised scale (CAL-R): A revised alcoholism scale for the MMPI and MMPI-2

The common alcohol logistic-revised scale (CAL-R): A revised alcoholism scale for the MMPI and MMPI-2

Examination of the reliability and validity of the personality assessment inventory

Clinical utility of the MMPI research scales in the assessment of adolescent acting out behaviors.

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