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The Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5): Constructs and MMPI-2 Scales.
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Harkness, Allan R.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1995
The Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) is a dimensional descriptive system for personality and its disorders. The development of the scales, based on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), is described. Results with 3 clinical samples (total 1,680), a college sample of 2,928, and a normative sample of 2,567 support the…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Models, Norms
Assessing the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) in Adolescents: New MMPI-A Scales.
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McNulty, John L.; Harkness, Allan R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Williams, Carolyn L. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The development of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) scales to measure the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), a model of personality, is reported. Preliminary scales were refined with the MMPI-A normative sample of 1,620 and a clinical sample of 713 adolescents, and their construct validity was supported. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Construct Validity, Models
On the Identification of Patterns of Substance Abuse with the MMPI-A.
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Gallucci, Nicholas T. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The contributions of specific scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) to the classification of 180 adolescent substance abusers into groups characterized by aspects of behavioral control were studied. Seven scales made significant contributions to the classification of substance abusers into three groups, with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Classification, Construct Validity