title: Reliabilities and interrelationships of two HABGT scales in a male delinquent population.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation; D001538:Bender-Gestalt Test; D003376:Counseling; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012919:Social Behavior; D013997:Time Factors