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Wagner, Edwin E.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1990
This study, using data for 200 psychiatric/chemical dependency patients, attempted to justify subscales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Distributions of all possible split-half correlations for certain research scales of the MMPI revealed negative skewness resulting in spuriously lowered reliability estimates. The scales…
Descriptors: Estimation (Mathematics), Patients, Personality Measures, Rating Scales
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Hsu, Louis M. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1992
D.V. Budescu and J.L. Rogers (1981) proposed a method of adjusting correlations of scales to eliminate spurious components resulting from the overlapping of scales. Three reliability correction formulas are derived in this article that are based on more tenable assumptions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematical Models, Personality Measures