The utility of a measure of aggression in differentiating abusing parents from other parents who are experiencing familial disturbance.
Discussed the utility of a measure of aggression using the MMPI (N = 54). Although child abusers significantly differed from a distressed and socioeconomic-status matched group on this scale, a discriminative analysis on the scale failed to adequately differentiate the groups. Results are discussed in terms of the deficiencies in the current method of separating their groups and for constructing measures that are likely to differentiate aggressive from nonaggressive populations.
D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012917:Social Adjustment