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An examination of the clinical validity of the MCMI‐III depressive personality scale
Author(s) -
Davis Steven E.,
Hays Larry W.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199701)53:1<15::aid-jclp3>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - millon clinical multiaxial inventory , psychology , clinical psychology , test validity , personality , scale (ratio) , personality test , personality assessment inventory , psychometrics , psychiatry , personality disorders , social psychology , cartography , geography
We examined the redundancy and incremental validity of the newly introduced Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory‐III (MCMI‐III) Depressive Personality scale with a heterogenous sample of 283 psychiatric inpatients. Linear and nominal bivariate correlations indicated sizable overlap between the MCMI‐III Depressive, Avoidant, and Self‐Defeating Personality scales. Also, the Depressive Personality scale showed moderate overlap with the MCMI‐III Major Depression scale. Despite this redundancy, the Depressive Personality scale made significant independent contributions in predicting Axis‐I measures of depression, i.e., the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) Depression and Interpersonal Sensitivity scales, as well as the MCMI‐III Major Depression scale. The Depressive Personality scale appears to be dimensionally related to these measures of Axis‐I depression. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.