Construct Validity of the Sivik Psychosomaticism Test and Test of Operational Style: Correlations with Four Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Subscales

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 79-84

  Sivik, Tatjana ^b   Delimar, Natasa ^c   Schoenfeld, Rebecca ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine   (Sweden)

^c Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Construct validity; MMPI; Personality test; Psychosomaticism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0033110190     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688713     Document Type: Article

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