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A retest of MMPI prediction of admission to a psychiatric hospital
Author(s) -
Klingler Daniel E.,
Johnson James H.,
Williams Thomas A.
Publication year - 1977
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 - 10.1002/1097-4679(197710)33:4<1029::aid-jclp2270330423>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , predictive validity , multivariate statistics , multivariate analysis , psychiatric hospital , psychiatry , clinical psychology , sample (material) , personality , medicine , statistics , social psychology , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography
In a previous study, Jones, Kahn, and Langsley (1965) investigated the hypothesis that the MMPI would prove clinically useful in the prediction of admission to a psychiatric hospital. They found that the MMPI had negligible predictive validity for such an application. However, several methodological flaws left the conclusions of that study in doubt. This paper retested the hypothesis that the MMPI can be predictive of the admission decision when a sophisticated multivariate classification technique and adequate sample size are used. Given our results, the hypothesis again must be rejected. Possible problems associated with testing an hypothesis such as this are discussed.