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Assessing employee potentials for abuse
Author(s) -
Haddock M. Dean,
McQueen William M.
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(198311)39:6<1021::aid-jclp2270390635>3.0.co;2-7
Subject(s) - psychology , univariate , clinical psychology , variance (accounting) , psychiatry , multivariate statistics , statistics , mathematics , accounting , business
Attempted to develop a battery of questionnaires and demographic data capable of early identification of institutional caretakers with potential for abuse of a client. After an extensive literature review on institutional client abuse, it was determined that the Child Abuse Potential Inventory, Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire and a General Information Form would account for a significant amount of variance to discriminate an abusive employee from a matched non‐abusive employee. The questionnaires were administered to 21 abusing and 21 matched non‐abusing employees. A univariate analysis, multiple regression, and a discriminate function analysis revealed that 73% of the between‐group variance was accounted for by 8 of the suggested variables. The sensitivity of these tests, the ability to identify correctly 21 known abusers, was 86%. The specificity, the ability to identify correctly 21 matched non‐abusers, was 100%. The proportion of grouped cases correctly classified was 93%.