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Anxious Symptomatic Volunteers in the Twin Cities: Sociodemographic Description and MMPI Psychodiagnosis
Author(s) -
ANDERSON FLOYD O.,
ABUZZAHAB F. S.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
the journal of clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.92
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1552-4604
pISSN - 0091-2700
DOI - 10.1002/j.1552-4604.1979.tb02509.x
Subject(s) - anxiety , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , sample (material) , pathognomonic , selection (genetic algorithm) , similarity (geometry) , medicine , headaches , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , personality , social psychology , disease , chemistry , chromatography , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)
This paper underscores the need for true sample selection before statistical inference of any value can be made. Its findings suggest that the sample selection strategy of symptomatic volunteers can produce samples of anxious subjects with remarkable demographic similarity across the country. Anxiety as a constitutional rather than pathognomonic symptom is illustrated by the heterogeneity of its psychometric evaluation in our volunteers. Expecting a drug to safely relieve the anxiety of all anxious symptomatic volunteers is akin to expecting a drug to safely relieve the headaches of all headache sufferers. We feel that careful psychodiagnosis remains the best sample selection strategy.