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Applied Psychological Measurement
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Psychologist Versus Client Perspectives in the Assessment of Psychopathology

Brian Bolton

Arkansas Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, University of Arkansas

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Psychiatric Status Schedule (PSS) were administered to two samples of clients who were participating in large-scale investigations of the rehabilitation counseling process (N = 108) and private psychotherapy (N = 113). The MMPI sum marized the clients' subjective views of their emo tional status while the PSS provided an assessment that had been filtered through the psychologists' perspectives. Statistical analyses of the resulting multivariable-multimethod matrix revealed a sub stantial convergence of client and psychologist per spectives. The assessment of depression was the symptom area in which the greatest agreement oc curred (r's of .60 and .70); canonical correlations which used all MMPI and PSS scales approached the theoretical maximum values (Rc's of .75 and .84). Further analyses suggested that the PSS pro vides a broader assessment of psychopathology than does the MMPI by summarizing unique diagnostic information. While an average of 40% of the vari ance in the MMPI sets was predictable from the PSS, only 16% of the PSS variance was predictable from the MMPI.

Applied Psychological Measurement, Vol. 1, No. 4, 533-542 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/014662167700100409
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