Citation

Gondolf EW. J. Fam. Violence 2003; 18(6): 387-389.

Affiliation

Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute (MAATI), USA; Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1023/A:1026247515800

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Dutton [Dutton, D. (2003). J. Fam. Violence 18: 253?255] dismissed Gondolf's MCMI subscale results from batterer program participants because of the inadequacies of the MCMI and how it was used. In this reply, Gondolf argues that Dutton's criticisms of the MCMI are debatable and the criticisms of the study methods are mistaken. It remains curious, to the author, why evidence for the abusive personality is not more evident in personality scales.