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A taxometric analysis of the MMPI/MMPI-2 depression scales.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A taxometric analysis of the MMPI/MMPI-2 depression scales./
Author:	Biles, Lagen Asbury.
Description:	115 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Roger L. Greene.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-07B.
Subject:	Psychology, Clinical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3181684
ISBN:	9780542226359

A taxometric analysis of the MMPI/MMPI-2 depression scales.
Biles, Lagen Asbury.

A taxometric analysis of the MMPI/MMPI-2 depression scales. - 115 p.

Adviser: Roger L. Greene.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, 2005.

Although depression is widely noted to be a heterogeneous disorder and is undisputedly distinct from other disorders, researchers continue to debate whether depressive syndromes differ by type or degree. This study sought to clarify and investigate whether depressive symptoms are taxometric or dimensional. Depressive symptom subscales (cognitive, social, suicidal, distress, affective, and vegetative), produced from items on 17 MMPI/MMPI-2 depression scales, were examined in a clinical sample of psychiatric inpatients and outpatients (n = 1000) drawn from the Caldwell Data set (Caldwell, 1997).

ISBN: 9780542226359Subjects--Topical Terms:

524864
Psychology, Clinical.

A taxometric analysis of the MMPI/MMPI-2 depression scales.
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520 $a Although depression is widely noted to be a heterogeneous disorder and is undisputedly distinct from other disorders, researchers continue to debate whether depressive syndromes differ by type or degree. This study sought to clarify and investigate whether depressive symptoms are taxometric or dimensional. Depressive symptom subscales (cognitive, social, suicidal, distress, affective, and vegetative), produced from items on 17 MMPI/MMPI-2 depression scales, were examined in a clinical sample of psychiatric inpatients and outpatients (n = 1000) drawn from the Caldwell Data set (Caldwell, 1997).
520 $a This study was conducted using taxometric analyses, specifically the maximum covariance analysis (MAXCOV; Meehl & Yonce, 1996) and the mean above minus below a cut (MAMBAC; Meehl & Yonce, 1994) procedures, which are frequently used for the assessment of underlying structures of a psychological construct. The MAMBAC and MAXCOV procedure were used to examine the depressive symptom subsets separately for men and women. This dissertation examined the hypothesis that MMPI/MMPI-2 scales that measure cognitive, affective, distress, suicidal, and social symptoms of depression are dimensional, while scales that measure vegetative symptoms of depression are taxonic. Also, it was hypothesized that taxonic findings at the item level would be identified for taxonic symptoms scales and no significant gender difference would be noted. Results support previous findings of the underlying taxonic structure of vegetative symptoms (Ambrosini et al., 2003; Beach & Amir, 2003; Grove et al., 1987; Haslam & Beck, 1994) and provide new taxonic evidence for the affective scale. Results for the cognitive, distress, suicidal, and social symptoms support previous dimensional findings for depression (Flett, Vredenburg, & Krames, 1997; Franklin, Strong, & Greene, 2002; Ruscio & Ruscio, 2000; Ruscio & Ruscio, 2002), which are not specific to the symptom scales identified for the purpose of this study. No significant gender difference was indicated at the scale level and consistent estimates of parameter base rates were obtained. Implications for defining, assessing and categorizing depression; limitations; and considerations for future research are discussed.
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