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VALIDATION OF THE MAUDSLEY PERSONALITY INVENTORY E SCALE
Author(s) -
CAINE T. M.,
HOPE K.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1964.tb00931.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroticism , personality , personality assessment inventory , dimension (graph theory) , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychometrics , sample (material) , personality test , test validity , social psychology , cartography , chromatography , chemistry , mathematics , pure mathematics , geography
The Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI) E scale is validated by a direct method which has not hitherto been employed. It is shown that, in a neurotic sample, it measures a dimension of personality which has been called the hysteroid‐obsessoid dimension and is unrelated to type of illness.