Empirical Identification of Drug Abuse Prone Individuals Using Interval Banded Profile Analysis
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Drug Education
- Vol. 16 (1) , 75-82
- https://doi.org/10.2190/kj9a-81mg-ytt7-596u
Abstract
This article shows how an empirical profile matching procedure applied to the MMPI of a client can be used to quantify the degree to which the client's personality profile is representative of a drug abusing group. Supplementary techniques show how reliable this judgment is and, when the individual's profile does not match a drug abuser prototype, isolates the reasons for the discrepancies. The technique can be regularly applied to MMPI profiles to screen for an “abuser-prone” personality style as well as more than forty other personality diagnostic classifications. A special automated scoring service is available for this identification.Keywords
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