title: Application of the Faschingbauer Abbreviated MMPI with alcoholic patients.
abstract: There is a need to examine the usefulness of an abbreviated form of the MMPI with alcoholic patients. The Faschingbauer Abbreviated MMPI (FAM) was administered to 225 male alcoholics. The correlations between the T-scores for the FAM and their full MMPI counterparts ranged from .761 to .919. Examination of the high-point code for each FAM-MMPI pair yielded 52.89% with identical high-point codes. A comparison between the MMPI and the FAM pairs showed that 78% of the profiles had the same number of scales with T-score above 70 plus or minus one scale. The authors suggest that when a full MMPI administration is not feasible, the FAM is a valid substitute for alcoholic populations.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011594:Psychometrics; D013997:Time Factors