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The use of the MMPI‐168 with delinquent adolescents
Author(s) -
Lueger Robert J.
Publication year - 1983
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(198301)39:1<139::aid-jclp2270390126>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , raw score , psychology , juvenile delinquency , clinical psychology , psychiatry , raw data , personality , social psychology , statistics , mathematics
Compared the standard MMPI and the MMPI‐168 scores of 90 male delinquent adolescents. Raw score and T‐score correlations were generally high and within acceptable limits, which indicates that MMPI‐168 scores are useful with delinquent adolescents. However, two‐point codetypes derived from standard MMPIs and MMPI‐168s were in agreement less than half of the time. Caution should be exercised in the interpretation of two‐point codetypes from MMPI‐168 raw scores.