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M L Hutt

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PubMed1977

Reliabilities and interrelationships of two HABGT scales in a male delinquent population.

Reliabilities and interrelationships of the Adiense-Abience and the Psychopathology Scales of the HABGT were investigated in a population of 120 13-15 year-old male delinquents over a 40-week period. The delinquent boys were assigned to three conditions: individual tutoring and counseling; group tutoring and counseling; controls (no treatment). Both scales were found to have high test-retest reliability over all conditions (rs ranged from .85 to .93). Interscorer reliability among three scorers was also found to be very high. As expected, treatment had a differential effect on psychopathology and on adience-abience: the former was modifiable while the latter was resistant to change. Also as predicted, the two scales had a significantly higher degree of commonality before treatment intervention than after such intervention, but the relationship remained stable for the control group. Implications for clinical and research use are discussed.

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PubMed1977

The predicative ability of HABGT scales for a male delinquent population.

The Adience-Abience and the Psychopathology Scales of the HABGT were applied under pretreatment and posttreatment conditions to 120 13-15-year-old male delinquents. Comparison with other personality variables, prediction of recidivism, and analysis of mean scores on the two scales with the means of normal and disturbed children of comparable age were attempted. The delinquent group was more ambient than normal children and was significantly higher in psychopathology than either normals or disturbed children. Significant correlations were obtained between Adience-Abience and Psychopathology and recidivism, although neither scale alone, nor both scales in combination, was high enough in prediction to warrant their use for individual predictive purposes. However, their utility in such programs as well as their construct validity were demonstrated.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Interrelationships of psychopathology and adience-abience on the HABGT.

Using two distinctively different populations, 40 hospitalized schizophrenics and 100 outpatient therapy cases, the interrelationships of two measures based on the HABGT, one of psychopathology and the other of perceptual adience-abience, were investigated. The relationships of each of these measures with sex, age, and educational level were examined. Both measures significantly differentiate the psychotic from the non-psychotic population. Although there is a statistically significant correlation between the two measures in each population, it is shown that the commonality between them varies from a considerable degree of commonality in the schizophrenic group to only a limited degree in the outpatient group. Both measures are uncorrelated with sex, age, and level of educational attainment. The study offers additional evidence of the values of these two measures.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

Further studies of a measure of adience-abience: reliability.

Previous studies have suggested adequate reliability for a measure of perceptual adience-abience based on the HABGT in view of significant evidence concerning its construct and predictive validity. The present study explored the test-retest reliability of this scale with 40 process schizophrenics over a two-week interval. Reliability was found to be adequate for both males and females (rho equals .84) for the total scale. The four components of the scale were similarly found to be reliable. No subject changed on retest with respect to adient or abient orientation. Interjudge reliability was very high (rho = .912).

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PubMed1975

Psychopathology scale of the Hutt adaptation of the Bender-Gestalt Test: reliability.

The test-retest reliability of the Hutt Adaptation of the Bender-Gestalt test was explored with a population of 40 process schizophrenics over a two-week interval. The total Psychopathology Scale Score was found to have high retest reliability for both male and female patients (rho = .87 for males and .83 for females). Moreover the three major components for the Scale were found to have high reliability, and fairly high reliabilities were obtained for patients scoring high as well as low on the Scale. Interjudge reliability was also found to be very high (rho = .895), confirming previous studies in this respect. On these grounds, the Scale offers promise both for clinical and research purposes.

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