title: Validity of the Overcontrolled-Hostility (O-H) Scale: a brief report.
abstract: In order to further assess the validity of the MMPI O-H (overcontrolled hostility) Scale, high and low O-H youthful offenders were administered the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study and their responses classified as extrapunitive, impunitive or intropunitive. Results indicated that high O-H subjects were significantly more impunitive than low O-H subjects and conversely, that low O-H subjects were more extrapunitive than high O-H subjects. Such findings are consistent with the O-H personality typology and lend further support to the construct validity of the Scale.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011386:Projective Techniques