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Parent MMPI critical item and clinical scale changes in the 1970s
Author(s) -
Holmes George R.,
Sabalis Robert F.,
Chestnut Elisabeth,
Khoury Leon
Publication year - 1984
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(198409)40:5<1194::aid-jclp2270400512>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , psychopathology , clinical psychology , population , psychiatry , reliability (semiconductor) , distress , personality , medicine , social psychology , quantum mechanics , power (physics) , physics , environmental health
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service of the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, Columbia, South Carolina, routinely administers the MMPI to the parents of children and adolescents in outpateint psychiatric treatment. The MMPI data obtained from parents during the (1970–74) and (1975–79) periods ( N = 342) have been analyzed from two perspectives, MMPI critical item condorsement and MMPI clinical scalc changes have been evaluated statistically through a comparison of parents in the two time periods. Both the increase in clinical scale elevations and shift in critical item endorsement suggest a parent population in which mothers are suffering considerably more psychological distress or psychopathology than fathers during the last 5 years. The findings indicate the need for cross‐clinic replications of the prents investigation in order to establish the reliability of the current findings.