Relationship of Mmpi Scores of Drug-Abusers to Personal Variables and Type of Treatment Program
- 1 May 1977
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 96 (1) , 25-29
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1977.9921414
Abstract
The MMPI scores for drug-abusers admitted to a multimodality treatment program (N=324) were analyzed to determine the extent of MMPI scale differences due to basic personal variables (age, sex, race), as well as type of program entered (drug-free vs. methadone-based) and program environment (residential vs. ambulatory). The results support the view that the MMPI group profile for drug-abusers, characterized by a substantially elevated Pd scale and somewhat less elevated scores on most other diagnostic scales, is relatively invariant and not substantially affected by personal background or program differences.Keywords
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