The present study was conducted to ascertain whether the Sc-O Scale successfully could continue to identify brain-damaged individuals and differentiate them from schizophrenics. (Author)

This research extended comparisons of the Mini-Mult and the MMPI to a different population, incarcerated adult female felons, and provided data on the utility of the Mini-Mult with females who were representative of a 14-year sample of incarcerated felons. (Author/RK)

The present follow-up study was undertaken to determine the extent to which avoidance of self-disclosure was as characteristic of the middle sessions of psychotherapy as it is of the initial sessions. (Author)

Previous research has shown that the Rorschach Prognostic Rating Scale reliably predicts the adjustment capacity of various S types to a variety of situations. The present study investigated the efficacy of the RPRS to suggest the adjustment capacity of prisoners to various aspects of their institutional environment. (Editor)

It was predicted that external Ss in the structured group would rate the leader and the group more positively than would internal Ss, and that internal Ss in the unstructured group would rate the leader and the group more positively than would external Ss. (Author)

Attempts to derive more specific clinical information contributed by the experimental scales, (the Pd and Ma, used for compiling profiles of abusive females and abusive males, and the OH, used for evaluating hostility), which would contribute greater psychological understanding of maltreating parents. (Author/RK)

Employed the Personal Health Survey (PHS) to study patterns of symptomology related to physical and mental health in a population of 730 Ss, which consisted of five groups: felons, hospitalized alcoholics, unmarried mothers, college students and institutionalized schizophrenics. (Editor)

Reports on a series of methodological refinements used in developing a systematic rationale for the construction, standardization and interpretation of the Personal Health Survey (PHS), a 200-item questionnaire designed to screen pathological functioning in the psychophysiological support systems that underlie physical and mental health. The PHS…

Attempts to reevaluate Beall and Panton's MMPI escape scale on what presumably would be a more appropriate escapee sample than that used in previous studies. This would help to determine whether a revision of this escape scale should be undertaken. (Author/RK)

Comparison was made between Devereux Child Behavior Rating Scale (DCB) ratings of matched groups of hyperactive and emotionally-behaviorally disturbed children. Results suggested that the DCB can assist in differentiating hyperactive children from children presenting symptoms similar to those of hyperactivity. (Editor/RK)

The Disruptive Behavior Scale, a 26-item behavioral checklist, provides an objective measure of socially unacceptable public secondary school behavior and may prove to be of value in determining public school exit and reentry plans for disruptive adolescents. This study developed the DBS from the Adaptive Behavior Scale--Part 11 (ABS-11).…

The validity of the Controlled Repression-Sensitization scale as an index of intellectualizing and repressive defenses was examined by a measure of affect cognition, which assesses the level of conceptualization and articulation of feelings in Ss' TAT stories. (Author/RK)

Tested the hypothesis that a high level of self-disclosure is indicative of psychological adjustment and self-actualization. The self-disclosure scale, Social Avoidance and Distress, Fear of Negative Evaluation, Alienation and Repression-Sensitization scales were administered to 60 introductory psychology students. (Editor/RK)