PSY-33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Takers, Rc6, Rc4
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Addiction acknowledgment scale (aas) high score t > 60. Scale development: both content based and empirical keying/correlations. Developed by weed et al. in 1992 emphasizing items in the mmpi-2 that have obvious content related to substance abuse. Using internal-consistency procedures, 3 items were eliminated that did not contribute to scale homogeneity. The 11 remaining items were correlated with each of the other mmpi-2 items. 2 items were identified that correlated highly and were added for a total of 11. The patient is openly acknowledging substance abuse problems. Because the items are obvious, persons not wanting to reveal a substance use problem can easily obtain an average score. Addiction potential scale (aps) high score t > 60. Also developed by weed et al. in 1992 using the mmpi-2 item pool. Compared responses of 598 inpatients in a chemical dependency program with 210 psychiatric inpatients and 1,290 members of the mmpi-2 normative sample.
