MMPI-A: test of behavioral correlates associated with elevated scales in a sample of female juvenile delinquents
| Title: | MMPI-A: test of behavioral correlates associated with elevated scales in a sample of female juvenile delinquents |
| Author: | Stefanov, Michael Lee |
| Abstract: | The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) has a long history of identifying adolescents who are at risk of displaying delinquent behaviors. However, MMPI research regarding behaviors observed from adolescents while incarcerated is non-existent. This dissertation examines the usefulness of the adolescent version of the MMPI (MMPI-A; Butcher et al., 1992) in predicting specific unit infractions for female juvenile delinquents incarcerated in a state facility in Texas. Unit infractions were placed into groups based on behavioral relatedness. MMPI-A scales were selected for analyses based on behavioral descriptors related to unit infractions. Logistic regression was performed to test whether elevated MMPI-A scales, dichotomized at 55T, 60T, 65T and 70T could predict behaviorally related groupings. Analyses suggest that the MMPI-A is not very useful in statistically predicting unit infractions. |
| Publisher: | Texas A&M University |
| Subject: |
MMPI-A
Incarceration Females |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4325 |
| Date: | 2005-08 |
Citation
(2005).
MMPI-A: test of behavioral correlates associated with elevated scales in a sample of female juvenile delinquents.
Doctoral dissertation,
Texas A&M University.
Texas A&M University. Available electronically from
http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /4325.
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