Citation

MacAndrew C. J. Stud. Alcohol 1986; 47(2): 161-166.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3713179

Abstract

A 36-item MMPI-derived scale, devoid of circular items, was constructed by contrasting the item responses of a sample of young men alcohol offenders and a sample of young men in treatment for drug or alcohol misuse, with samples of similarly aged and sexed college students, ambulatory medical patients and psychiatric outpatients who were not substance misusers. Detection rates, which averaged approximately 85% for four standardization samples, suffered no validity shrinkage on cross-validation.

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