Interpreting Low Personality Psychopathology-Five Aggressiveness Scores on the MMPI-2: Graphical, Robust, and Resistant Data Analysis

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 403-408

  Weisenburger, Susan M ^a   Harkness, Allan R ^a   McNulty, John L ^a   Graham, John R ^b   Ben Porath, Yossef S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggressiveness; MMPI 2; personality assessment; PSY 5

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; OUTPATIENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPIST;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MMPI; PERSONALITY DISORDERS;

EID: 57849131160     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013496     Document Type: Article

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