Using the megargee system among belgian prisoners: Cross-cultural prevalence of the MMPI-2 based types

Psychological Reports

Volumn 100, Issue 3 I, 2007, Pages 746-754

  Sneyers, Michèle ^a   Sloore, Hedwig ^a   Rossi, Gina ^a   Derksen, Jan J L ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRISONER; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BELGIUM; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; MALE; MMPI; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547308172     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.100.3.746-754     Document Type: Article

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