MMPI-2 with male and female state and federal prison inmates

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-185

  Megargee, Edwin I ^a   Mercer, Sara Jill ^b   Carbonell, Joyce L ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE;

EID: 0033067969     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.11.2.177     Document Type: Article

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