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The Personality Psychopathology-Five (PSY-5): Recent Constructive Replication and Assessment Literature Review
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Harkness, Allan R.; Finn, Jacob A.; McNulty, John L.; Shields, Susan M. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The Personality Psychopathology-Five (PSY-5; Harkness & McNulty, 1994) is a model of individual differences relevant to adaptive functioning in both clinical and non-clinical populations. In this article, we review the development of the PSY-5 model (Harkness, 1992; Harkness & McNulty, 1994) and discuss the ways in which the PSY-5 model is…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Adolescents, Mental Disorders, Personality Traits
Social Desirability, Non-Response Bias and Reliability in a Long Self-Report Measure: Illustrations from the MMPI-2 Administered to Brunei Student Teachers
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Mundia, Lawrence – Educational Psychology, 2011
The survey investigated the problems of social desirability (SD), non-response bias (NRB) and reliability in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--Revised (MMPI-2) self-report inventory administered to Brunei student teachers. Bruneians scored higher on all the validity scales than the normative US sample, thereby threatening the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, College Students, Social Desirability, Response Style (Tests)
Interpreting Low Personality Psychopathology--Five Aggressiveness Scores on the MMPI-2: Graphical, Robust, and Resistant Data Analysis
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Weisenburger, Susan M.; Harkness, Allan R.; McNulty, John L.; Graham, John R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S. – Psychological Assessment, 2008
The Minnesota Mutiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)-based Personality Psychopathology-Five (PSY-5) scales provide an overview of personality individual differences. Several textbooks and a test report offer instruction on interpreting MMPI-2 PSY-5 scores. On the basis of an earlier item response theory article (S. V. Rouse, M. S. Finger,…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Personality Measures, Measures (Individuals), Data Analysis
Predicting Sobriety from the Employment Status of Dually Diagnosed Clients Who Are Opiate Dependent
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Scorzelli, James F. – Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (E. S. Neukrug & R. C. Fawcett, 2006) profiles and employment status for clients who are opiate dependent. A discriminant function analysis indicated that employment was a predictor in maintaining sobriety after 6 months. (Contains…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Discriminant Analysis, Employment Patterns, Profiles
The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR): A Reliability Generalization Study
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Li, Andrew; Bagger, Jessica – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2007
The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding (BIDR) is one of the most widely used social desirability scales. The authors conducted a reliability generalization study to examine the typical reliability coefficients of BIDR scores and explored factors that explained the variability of reliability estimates across studies. The results indicated…
Descriptors: Reliability, Generalization, Social Desirability, Scores
An Evaluation of the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A True Response Inconsistency (TRIN) Scales
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Handel, Richard W.; Arnau, Randolph C.; Archer, Robert P.; Dandy, Kristina L. – Assessment, 2006
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--Adolescent (MMPI-A) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (MMPI-2) True Response Inconsistency (TRIN) scales are measures of acquiescence and nonacquiescence included among the standard validity scales on these instruments. The goals of this study were to evaluate the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Protocol Analysis, Effect Size, Personality Measures
Emotional Intelligence and Adaptive Success of Nurses Caring for People with Mental Retardation and Severe Behavior Problems
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Gerits, Linda; Derksen, Jan J. L.; Verbruggen, Antoine B. – Mental Retardation: A Journal of Practices, Policy and Perspectives, 2004
The emotional intelligence profiles, gender differences, and adaptive success of 380 Dutch nurses caring for people with mental retardation and accompanying severe behavior problems are reported. Data were collected with the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory, Utrecht-Coping List, Utrecht-Burnout Scale, MMPI-2, and GAMA. Absence due to illness…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Behavior Problems, Nurses, Mental Retardation