Personality testing and epilepsy: Comparison of two MMPI-2 correction procedures

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 911-918

  Nelson, Linda D ^a   Elder, Joseph T ^b   Groot, Jantje ^a   Tehrani, Pany ^a   Grant, Arthur C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Emotional functioning; Epilepsy; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2; Personality

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NORMAL VALUE; PERSONALITY TEST; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 10844291730     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.08.006     Document Type: Article

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