Assessing the MMPI-Based Cook-Medley Hostility Scale: The Implications of Dimensionality

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1281-1287

  Steinberg, Lynne ^a   Jorgensen, Randall S ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MMPI; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 0030164107     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.6.1281     Document Type: Article

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