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Holland, Terrill R.; Boik, Robert J. – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1978
Ethical choices were assessed for offenders instructed to produce favorable versus unfavorable impressions. Pronounced impression management effects were obtained for prosocial and antisocial responses, and high scores on a dimension of change defined by these variables were related to sociopathic features on the MMPI. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Criminology, Personality Measures, Prisoners

Leonard, C. V. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) of 36 patient suicides were compared with two matching control groups. Female suicides differed significantly from all male groups and from both female control groups. These differentiating patterns emerged from a population of voluntary psychiatric patients and would not necessarily be…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Predictor Variables, Research Projects, Sex Differences

Beutler, Larry E.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Male patients complaining of impotence (N=32) were administered the Male Impotence Test (MIT) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The results suggested that the MIT is without value for differentiating between psychogenic and biogenic impotence, whereas two rules from the MMPI appropriately classified 90 percent of the…
Descriptors: Males, Personality Measures, Physical Health, Prediction

Schubert, Daniel S. P.; Wagner, Mazie Earle – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Present findings can be integrated with previous work by indicating that the A therapists were concerned with other people, feelings, and possible new ways of looking at things, whereas the Bs are more concerned with established facts and objects in the external world. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Characteristics

Kroger, Rolf O.; Turnbull, William – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
The hypothesis was tested that subjects fake personality tests by enacting a specific social role, rather than by responding in terms of personality constructs, and that such role faking cannot be detected by validity scales. Results support the hypothesis. (Author)
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Predictive Validity, Reliability, Research Projects

Klingler, Daniel E.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
This study was undertaken to test Dahlstrom's hypothesis that the clinical utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) could be improved through the use of dimensionally pure personality trait and psychopathological state scales to supplant the present dimensionally complex clinical and validity scales. Results failed to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Psychological Evaluation

Monroe, Lawrence J.; Marks, Philip A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
The purpose of this study was to compare Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) results of 53 adolescent poor sleepers with a matched control group of 53 good sleepers. Adolescents, like adults, show a highly significant relationship between neurotic personality functioning and poor sleep. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences, Personality Assessment

Jansen, David G.; Hoffman, Helmut – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
The MMPI was administered to 30 male counselors prior to admission to training and again at the completion of training. The counselors on alcoholism in the present study scored significantly higher than male counselor trainees on the MMPI L, Pd, and Ma scales in the pretraining and completion of training. (Author)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Correlation, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Training

Stewart, Robert A. C. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1974
Because of the still imperfectly understood basic factor structure of the MMPI, a Principal Components Analysis and Varimax Rotation was conducted on the MMPI item responses of 50 female undergraduate students of Education at Massey University. Eight factors were extracted. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Analysis, Females, Orthogonal Rotation

Jarnecke, Roy W.; Chambers, Eugene D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) protocols for 242 acute psychiatric inpatients were scored on the 13 content scales. The age, IQ, and education of each subject were also recorded. Content-scale scores were compared with scores from normal groups and were found to be significantly greater. (Author)
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Personality Measures, Research Projects, Scaling

Hedlund, James L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
Compares results of seven independent studies that have attempted to empirically identify the behavioral or symptom correlates of individual Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory clinical scales for psychiatric patients. Symptom correlates, in general, tend to provide construct validity for the "traditional" interpretation of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Personality Measures, Profiles, Rating Scales

Ogilvie, Larry P.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
This paper investigates the usefulness of the Mini-Mult test with a large outpatient psychiatric clinic population. It also compares Mini-Mult with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The findings suggest that Mini-Mult is useful in clinical situations, particularly if time is short or paraprofessionals are to be used. (NG)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinics, Diagnostic Tests, Patients

Rader, Charles M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
In this study, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of exposer (n=36), rapist (n=47), and assaulter (n=46) groups were investigated and compared. The most disturbed group, the rapists, had MMPI K-corrected mean raw scale scores that were significantly greater than those of the exposer group on many scales. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Criminals, Individual Differences, Personality Development

Wakefield, James A., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
The MMPI scales were scored for items appearing only on one scale (nonoverlapping) and for items appearing on more than one scale (overlapping). Overlapping scales significantly corresponded with neuroticism, psychoticism and extraversion while nonoverlapping scales insignificantly corresponded with the same theoretical constructs. (Author/SE)
Descriptors: Adults, Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Neurosis

Penk, W. E.; And Others – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1978
Racial bias in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was investigated by comparing responses of Black and White compulsive heroin users on both empirically derived validity and clinical scales and intuitively constructed content scales. The results suggest that ethnicity is an influential subject background characteristic.…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Personality Measures, Psychopathology, Racial Characteristics