Differentiation of alcoholism from general psychopathology by means of two MMPI scales
✍ Scribed by Albert E. Uecker; George B. Kish; Margaret E. Ball
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1969
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
PROBLEM
Three scales developed from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) have successfully differentiated alcoholics from nonpsychiatric control. c2) Unfortunately, these three scales, Hoyt and Sedlacek's (6) AH scale, Hampton's(') AL scale, and Holmes'(l) AM scale, have not proved useful in differentiating alcoholics from nonalcoholic psychiatric patients. Therefore, it has been concluded that these three scales measure general psychopathology, rather than proneness toward alcoholism.
It is possible, however, that the failure of the three scales to differentiate alcoholic from nonalcoholic psychiatric patients was due to premature testing of the alcoholics at times when many of them were still showing symptoms of acute alcoholism or of withdrawal, and were therefore temporarily more likely to respond in a deviant manner to many MMPI items. In the study by Rotman and