Psychopathology and sociometric choice.
- 1 August 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Vol. 71 (4) , 256-259
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023592
Abstract
Previous research has suggested that except for paranoid schizophrenics, similarity in diagnostic category has little effect on sociometric choice among patients. A sociometric study was conducted employing MMPI [Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory] scales as well as diagnostic categories on 84 hospitalized psychiatric patients. When diagnostic labels from the patients'' charts were used, results showed no relationship between sociometric choice and diagnosis. However, patients classified by highest MMPI scale or by MMPI code type made positive sociometric choices among themselves.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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