An estimate and comparison of MMPI and MMPI-2 concurrent validity: Predicting DSM-III-R diagnoses among college students

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 184, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 417-424

  Svanum, Soren ^a   Mcgrew, John ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; COLLEGE STUDENT; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PANIC; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MMPI; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0029831436     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199607000-00004     Document Type: Article

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