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The relationship between the overcontrolled‐hostility scale and the MMPI 4–3 high‐point pair
Author(s) -
Walters Glenn D.,
Solomon Gary S.,
Greene Roger L.
Publication year - 1982
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(198207)38:3<613::aid-jclp2270380326>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - hostility , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , statistical significance , sample (material) , scale (ratio) , prison , clinical psychology , statistics , demography , personality , social psychology , mathematics , physics , criminology , quantum mechanics , sociology , thermodynamics
Investigated the relationship between the MMPI 4–3 high‐point pair and the Overcontrolled‐Hostility (O‐H) scale in three different populations. S s were assigned to the 4–3 condition based on the following two criteria: (1) Scales 3 (H Y ) and 4 (P D ) ≥ T‐score of 65; (2) Scale 4 (P D ) > Scale 3 (H Y ) ≥ all other clinical scales. In the prison sample ( N = 200), inmates who achieved the 4–3 high‐point pair were found to earn significantly higher scores on the O‐H scale relative to a group of age‐matched controls. These results were cross‐validated successfully in a sample of psychology clinic outpatients ( N = 500), where patients were matched on both age and sex. A similar relationship was found between the presence of a 4–3 high‐point pair and higher scores on the O‐H scale in a state hospital ( N = 102) sample, although the results did not reach statistical significance because of the restricted sample size.