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M Thackrey

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PubMed1995

Differential sensitivity of the MMPI-2 depression scales and subscales.

The MMPI-2 was administered to 122 psychiatric inpatients (62 female, 60 male, mean age 37 years). The various MMPI-2 depression scales and subscales were examined to compare their relative sensitivity. Using the 65T cut-off, scales DEP and D identified approximately 60% and 62%, respectively, as suffering depressotypal symptoms. Using a 70T cut-off, scales D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D-Obvious, and D-Subtle identified 53%, 24%, 37%, 57%, 45%, 53%, and 3%, respectively, as suffering depressotypal symptoms. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for clinical practice.

Adult↗
PubMed1993

Negative emotion as predictor of relapse in persons with schizophrenia living in board and care homes.

Negative emotion exhibited by the board and care providers toward residents, resident behavior, medication dosage, medication noncompliance, and gender were used to predict resident relapse over a 6-month period. Relapse was defined as movement to a higher, more intensive level of care. Eighty-four residents with a diagnosis of chronic schizophrenia disorder, living in board and care homes in the Fresno, California, area participated in the study. Board and care providers were interviewed using Kreisman's Patient Rejection Scale and Gurel's Behavior Rating Scale. Neither patient rejection nor resident behavior was predictive of relapse; however, medication noncompliance did predict relapse with the male residents and lower medication dose predicted relapse with the female residents. Rejection of the patient by the board and care operator was found to correlate .73 and .64 with negative behavior of the male and female residents respectively. Implications of these results for expressed emotion research were discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed1993

The utility of self-concept as a predictor of recidivism among juvenile offenders.

Forty institutionalized male juvenile offenders in the United States were administered a Role Construct Repertory Grid (Kelly, 1955) and the Self-Consciousness Scale (Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss, 1975) to determine whether frequent offenders could be differentiated from infrequent offenders on the basis of these instruments. We hypothesized that the frequent offenders would have more "delinquent" self-concepts than the infrequent offenders. The results did not confirm this hypothesis. In fact, the frequent offender group actually had fewer delinquent self-concepts than the offender group, although the trend was not statistically significant. This finding is interpreted as an indication that some offenders who acknowledge their delinquent orientation are better able to apply their personal resources toward control of their behavior.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1993

Graphomotor interpretation of the MMPI-2?

Although clinicians may attribute various personality features to patients who complete paper-and-pencil instruments (e.g., the MMPI-2) with notable neatness (compulsivity?) or sloppiness (oppositionalism?), such inferences have not been empirically examined. In our investigation, MMPI-2 protocols of 154 psychiatric inpatients (74 female and 80 male, M age = 36.7) were examined. A scoring system was developed to categorize the degree of neatness with which each patient had filled in the MMPI-2 response sheet (interrater Cohen Kappa = 0.86). Degree of neatness was not found to be correlated with clinical or content scales on the MMPI-2, with any Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II) scales, or with various Rorschach (Comprehensive System) variables. These results imply that, clinical lore notwithstanding, clinicians should refrain from drawing unwarranted inferences about patients' personality features on the basis of the apparent neatness or sloppiness of patients' protocols.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1991

A principal components analysis of the Comprehensive Test of Adaptive Behavior.

The Comprehensive Test of Adaptive Behavior (CTAB) yields indices of functioning in six categories (Self-Help Skills, Home Living Skills, Independent Living Skills, Social Skills, Sensory and Motor Skills, and Language Concepts and Academic-Skills) and a composite Total Score. A single factor, extracted through principal components analysis of standardization sample data, accounted for approximately 86% of the variance in the six category scores, portraying the CTAB as unidimensional rather than multidimensional. Therefore, rather than use of category scores, cautious interpretation of idiographic item clusters and the Total Score may be the most psychometrically sound procedure for evaluating CTAB results.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1986

Managing violence.

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Education, Continuing↗