Scale equivalence and profile similarity of the Mini-Mult and MMPI in an outpatient clinic

✍ Scribed by Tom R. Hobbs

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(197407)30:3<349::aid-jclp2270300338>3.0.co;2-1

✦ Synopsis

hospital ascribed to significantly more pathology a t the time of the most recent admission than the typical admission on those units. Whereas one might assume that the Patients' Rights Office would attract a random sample of patients, it appeared that the local office attracted a clientele from among the more dependent males, from among the more disturbed, bizarre, and hypomanic psychiatric patients, and from among the most sociopathic female psychiatric and male alcohol and drug patients.

SUMMARY

Patients who visited a state hospital Patients' Rights Office over a 10-month period were compared with norms for their sex and treatment units on the basis of MMPI standard scores. Both male and female psychiatric Ss scored significantly higher than their respective admission norm groups on four MMPI scales, while male alcohol and drug Ss scored significantly higher than male admission norms for their unit on eight scales. Results supported the conclusion that Patients' Rights Office visitors from both the psychiatric and alcohol and drug units of the hospital in this sample suffered from more pathology than the typical patient on their respective units.