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M‐F: Bipolar and probably multidimensional
Author(s) -
Sines Jacob O.
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<1038::aid-jclp2270330426>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - psychology , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , sexual orientation , psychometrics , construct validity , orientation (vector space) , test validity , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , personality , social psychology , mathematics , geometry
Scores on the MMPI MF scale and the WAIS M‐F index were found not to be correlated highly with each other, but to be correlated significantly with self‐rated sexual orientation in a mixed‐sex group of S s. Only when the implicit bipolarity of each of the test scales was taken into account were the scales significantly related to sexual orientation. The combination of the two M‐F indices accounted for significantly more of the variance in sexual orientation than either scale alone. The results suggest that M‐F may be considered accurately to be both a bipolar and a multidimensional construct.