title: Note on Meunier and Bodkins's (2005) "interpretation of MMPI-A Scale 5 with female patients".
abstract: Meunier and Bodkins discussed the unclear interpretation of Scale 5 of the MMPI-A, investigated use of the scale with adolescent girls in a court-ordered residential treatment program and suggested that subclinical elevations on the scale may predict disruptive behavior in special samples. This note comments on statistics reported by Meunier and Bodkins and recommends additional analyses, including estimation of effect sizes for scales on which comparisons are statistically nonsignificant.
authors.affiliation: alb@ccil.org
authors.forename: Alfred L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Brophy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012114:Residential Treatment