Korbanka and Gaede recently developed an MMPI-2 scale by discriminant analysis to identify people who were emotionally abused in childhood or adolescence. The scale had an exceptionally high classification rate in the initial sample of mental health outpatients, and the authors recommended that it be validated in other samples. This note reinforces the recommendation for cross-validation, examines item overlap with other scales, shows emotionally abused patients responded to many items more positively and with more favorable self-description than emotionally un-abused patients, and comments on the method used to develop the scale.
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