PSY-33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychopathology, Trin, Blue-Collar Worker
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Collect a large pool of items: they collected personality statements from case histories, textbooks, and earlier personality scales; from about 1000 statements, they chose 504 that were reasonably independent of each other. Minnesota normals, consisted of: 724 relatives and visitors of patients at the hospital, 265 high school students, 265 government workers (wpa), and 254 medical patients. Almost all the minnesota normals were white, christian, blue collar workers (farmers), and lived in the rural area near the hospital (outside of. Clinical participants : made up of 221 psychiatric patients, which was subdivided into the 8 major psychiatric categories being used at that time. If there was any doubt about a diagnosis, or there was more than one, the patient was not included. Cross validation: additional groups of patients and normals were collected and the new scales were tested to see if they could distinguish between those with the diagnosis and those without. Some scales succeeded and were considered cross-validated.
