Hospital and occupation group differences in opinion about the release or retention of psychiatric patients
✍ Scribed by Theodore W. Lorei; Jacob Cohen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 514 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
In each wwe. MMPI omkioiw were less theii 50, and the three validity d e s of L, F, and K female y waa 22.38 yeara. The mean Henmon-been widely dep eyed in cllnlcal and were T < 6.5. All SS were between the ~g e s of p ~t i ~ 88 a masure of ~c h o l o g i c a l well-being 21-35: mean male age was 23.62 and mean and aa a predictor of response to psychotherap ~g f j s c o r e k g e m d l obtainedaaprfioft{i Nelson est of Mental Ability I& wtu 114.9 MMPI, an instrument wkch is so long that there for males and 121.1 for femalm. b v e been a v e d efforts to devise an &bre,ted The Pesraon product moment correlation beform. One of the more frequently ueed short tween the 5 c o M bawd upon the first 50 fo-the use of the first 366 of the total item8 and the fd s d e Of 68 items WBll .91 for .-a test items, thereby allowing for inclusion of males and .92 for females.
The daerence be- the mjor MMPI although without Ktween these t,wo correlations way not significant. correction. Barron's scale, however, consisty of that an abbreviated test could reduce the nllm-Thia study compared the short and full form ber of ES items available for scoring. of Barron's ego-stre scale obtained from 100 111 two small samples of clinical patient*, tlomal add&, x k h mx. P e s m n product Canter(*) found that a shortened velrsion of the moment correlatiom were high and &owed no Scale, comprised of O d Y the first 50 items, difference between the male (r = .91) and female yielded scores eseentiall equivalent to the com-(r = .92) mup. It was concluded the PIek sale; however, tiere has been no re rt short and f& forms of this widely used scale were correlating short and reylar forms of the E -S scale with normal, non-clinical Ss, and it waa the REFERENCES PUT of this investigat.ion t.o study t,hat. pro lem. 1. B.~HHON, Y. An egostrength wale which .METHOD AND RESULTS predicta response to psychotherapy. J . conauk The Ss were 100 normal adult 'ob applicaiiki,