Using the megargee MMPI-based classification system with the MMPI-2s of female prison inmates

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 75-82

  Megargee, Edwin I ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY; PRISONER;

EID: 0030962413     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.9.2.75     Document Type: Article

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