Use of Actuarial Description of Abnormal Personality in a Mental Hospital

Huff, Frederick W.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1965.17.1.224

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“…As in the earlier studies, a wide variety of nontest data were analyzed, and behaviors characteristic of the various profile types were listed in code books for use by practicing clinicians (Gilberstadt & Duker, 1965;Marks & Seeman, 1963). Although clinicians' reactions to this approach initially were quite positive, they have become less enchanted with the approach because experience has indicated that few profiles encountered in most clinical settings fit any code type presented in the code books (Fowler & Coyle, 1968a, 1968bHuff, 1965;Meikle & Gerritse, 1970;Pauker, 1966;Schultz, Gibeau, & Barry, 1968).…”

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Behavioral correlates of single-scale MMPI code types.

Boerger¹,

Graham²,

Lilly³

1974

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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An attempt was made to determine whether reliable demographic and behavioral correlates could be found for single scale Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) code types. Utilizing a split-sample technique to allow for replication, high-point, low-point, high-score, and low-score code types were studied. Each code type was compared with other subjects on 73 demographic and behavioral variables. Separate analyses were done for male and female code types. Only correlates reliable across both samples are reported. A sufficiently large number of reliable correlates were identified to suggest that single-scale code types can be considered a meaningful approach to MMPI interpretation. The importance of using replication procedures was confirmed.In response to the plea for a "good cookbook" for psychological test interpretation (Meehl, 1956), a number of investigators have attempted to identify empirical correlates of various types of MMPI profiles. In the earliest studies profiles were classified according to relatively simple criteria, such as high scores or low scores on a single scale

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Behavioral correlates of single-scale MMPI code types.

Boerger¹,

Graham²,

Lilly³

1974

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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“…The proportion of disagreements that occurred between the MS and the GD rules ( Table 3) was considerably lower for the "complete fit" profiles than for any of the rule relaxation procedures, x2,, 3 df, = 17.67, p < .001. There were no differences between the three relaxation methods in proportion of disagreements between systems.…”

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MMPI “cookbooks”: Are rule relaxation and system combination procedures an answer to low classification rates?

Porier

Smith

1971

J. Clin. Psychol.

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“…The overall elevation of the profile reported in the Atlas was much less than that of the hypothetical profile. The hypothetical profile is not easily classified within Marks and Seeman's (1963) system although this is, itself, no indictment of its typicalness (Huff, 1965). All of the promising diagnostic signs employed by Goldberg (1965) classify this profile as "psychotic."…”

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Substantive dimensions of self-report in the MMPI item pool.

Wiggins¹

1966

Psychological Monographs: General and Applied

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Starting with the original item-content classifications of Hathaway and McKinley, both psychometric and intuitive procedures were employed in the development of a set of scal es designed to be internally consistent, moderately independent, and representative of the major substantive clusters that appeared to exist in the total MMPI item pool. Although not constructed by the strategy of contrasted groups, the 13 MMPI content scal es nevertheless exhibited significant variability of mean scal e scores when diverse normal, college, and psychiatric populations were compared. Moreover, when multivariate analytic procedures were employed in the diagnostic classification of psychiatric inpatients, the content scal es were found to be as promising aa the conventional clinical scal es which were derived for this specific purpose. The factorial structure of the content scal es was related to that of the clinical scal es and found to lend support to the interpretation of the first 2 factors of the MMPI as "ego resiliency" and "control." An example was provided of the manner in which content scal es may be employed as a supplement to interpretation of the MMPI clinical scales.

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Use of Actuarial Description of Abnormal Personality in a Mental Hospital

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Behavioral correlates of single-scale MMPI code types.

Behavioral correlates of single-scale MMPI code types.

MMPI “cookbooks”: Are rule relaxation and system combination procedures an answer to low classification rates?

Substantive dimensions of self-report in the MMPI item pool.

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