Forbey Johnathan D, Ben-Porath Yossef S
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Ohio 44242, USA.
Assessment. 2003 Jun;10(2):191-202. doi: 10.1177/1073191103010002010.
The current study explores the incremental validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) content scales. Participants were 335 adolescents (250 boys and 85 girls) between the ages of 13 and 18 who were receiving mental health services from a residential treatment facility. Regression analyses were conducted to identify the amount of additional variance accounted for by the content scales over the clinical scales in predicting scores on a clinician rating form of psychological symptomatology. Several of the MMPI-A content scales demonstrated significant incremental validity above the clinical scales in predicting clinician ratings of adolescents' behavior and personality characteristics. The clinical scales also demonstrated incremental validity in reference to the content scales, indicating then that the two sets of scales provide complementary information. Magnitude of the additional criterion variance predicted was modest.
本研究探讨了明尼苏达多相人格问卷青少年版（MMPI-A）内容量表的增量效度。参与者为335名年龄在13至18岁之间的青少年（250名男孩和85名女孩），他们正在一家住院治疗机构接受心理健康服务。进行回归分析，以确定在预测临床医生对心理症状的评分表上的分数时，内容量表比临床量表额外解释的方差量。几个MMPI-A内容量表在预测临床医生对青少年行为和人格特征的评分方面，显示出高于临床量表的显著增量效度。临床量表相对于内容量表也显示出增量效度，这表明这两组量表提供了互补信息。预测的额外标准方差量适中。
