MMPI profile configurations among crime classification groups

✍ Scribed by James H. Panton

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1958
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(195807)14:3<305::aid-jclp2270140325>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

To test the hypothesis that youthful criminals who are able readers will not show the difference in verbal and performance subtests which has been described by Wechsler as typical of the youthful psychopath while criminals who are inadequate readers will produce such a psychogram, inmates of a federal correctional institution were divided by means of the Jastak Wide Range Achievement test into groups of successful and unsuccessful readers and were administered the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. The 33 UR's were found to be inferior both to Wechsler's standardization group and to the 35 SR's in verbal subtests and Digit Symbol. Their psychogram is similar to that described as typical of the youthful psychopath. The SR's did as well on verbal as on performance subtests, and their psychogram does not resemble that considered typical of the youthful psychopath. Both groups achieved the highest scores in Picture Arrangement.