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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
Personality Assessment as a Signal Detection Task
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Stenson, Herbert; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Studies hypothesized and tested that a judge's discriminal process is a sample from a normal distribution of all possible discriminal processes for the MMPI stimulus set; that standard deviations of two distributions of binary MMPI decisions are equal; and that discriminative capacities of judges remain fixed from one decision session to the next.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Discrimination Learning, Higher Education, Item Analysis
Thurstone's Scaling Model Applied to the Assessment of Self-Reported Depressive Severity.
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Russo, Joan – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Thurstone's scaling based on judgments of 527 students and 37 clinical faculty members was applied to the Beck Depression Inventory, the Zung Depression Scale, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and fitted the observed data well. A psychological continuum was derived for severity of depression. (SLD)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, College Faculty, Depression (Psychology), Evaluation Methods