Concurrent Validity of the Global Assessment Scale: What's in a Number?
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 62 (1) , 279-282
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1988.62.1.279
Abstract
The concurrent validity of the Global Assessment Scale was investigated by correlating it with several measures of psychiatric symptomatology and impairment from 192 adults and children admitted for outpatient treatment. Results suggest questionable validity as an index of psychopathology.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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