Validity rates of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory-2 in a VA Medical Center setting

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-15

  Braxton, Loretta E ^a,b   Calhoun, Patrick S ^a,b   Williams, John E ^c   Boggs, Christina D ^a  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; OUTPATIENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDITY; VETERAN;

EID: 33847154019     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8801_02     Document Type: Article

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