A retest of MMPI prediction of admission to a psychiatric hospital.
In a previous study, Jones, Kahn, and Langsley (1965) investigated the hypothesis that the MMPI would prove clinically useful in the prediction of admission to a psychiatric hospital. They found that the MMPI had negligible predictive validity for such an application. However, several methodological flaws left the conclusion of that study in doubt. This paper retested the hypothesis that the MMPI can be predictive of the admission decision when a sophisticated multivariate classification technique and adequate sample size are used. Given our results, the hypothesis again must be rejected. Possible problems associated with testing an hypothesis such as this are discussed.
D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D011336:Probability; D012044:Regression Analysis