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Second‐order factors of the MMPI item pool in a psychiatric sample
Author(s) -
Burger Gary K.
Publication year - 1990
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(199011)46:6<787::aid-jclp2270460615>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - psychology , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , sample (material) , factor (programming language) , psychometrics , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , structural equation modeling , personality , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , computer science , programming language
Finn's (1986) two second‐order MMPI factors, based on the factor scales of Johnson, Butcher, Null, and Johnson (1984), were examined in a psychiatric sample ( N = 2,027) by a confirmatory factor analytic procedure. The two‐factor model was rejected in the psychiatric sample, and a three‐factor model was derived using exploratory factor analysis. An Anti‐social factor was present in the current study, but not in that of Finn (1986). The similarities between the second‐order factors identified in this study and other factor analyses, including Finn's (1986), also are discussed.