Substance use scales of the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory: An exploration of score reliability via meta-analysis

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1052-1065

  Miller, Christopher S ^a   Shields, Alan L ^b   Campfield, Delia ^a   Wallace, Kim A ^a   Weiss, Roger D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 (MMPI 2); Reliability generalization; Reliability induction; Substance abuse scales

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148941281     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164406299130     Document Type: Article

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