title: Comparison of MMPI clinical scale and critical item changes of adult outpatients and parents of child psychiatry outpatients during the 1970s.
abstract: The present investigation is a replication of the Holmes, Sabalis, Chestnut, and Khoury (1984) study of MMPI critical item endorsement changes and MMPI clinical scale shifts in the parents of children seen at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, Columbia, South Carolina during the 1970s. The current study evaluates MMPIs (N = 749) of adult, female, and male psychiatric outpatients seen during the 1970s. The general MMPI changes observed in the adult psychiatric outpatient population were not similar to those changes seen in the parent population. However, an important specific change on the Masculine/Feminine Scale for the adult outpatients was discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors