There's More in a Number than You Think: New Validity Data for the Global Assessment Scale
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 64 (2) , 455-461
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1989.64.2.455
Abstract
Holcomb and Otto (1988) recently suggested that the widely used Global Assessment Scale may have “… questionable validity as an index of psychopathology.” The present paper points out procedural and conceptual problems in their study and presents extensive evidence supporting the concurrent and predictive validity of the scale.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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