PSY-33 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Neuroticism, Psychoticism, Conscientiousness
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The original clinical scales were constructed by an empirical keying approach resulting in scales that are quite heterogeneous and not very independent of each other. High correlations among the clinical scales is partly due to item overlap. However, research has shown that even when the overlapping items are removed, some. Factor analyses of the clinical scales has consistently shown that some of the scales share a common factor that is often identified as emotional distress . It appears that the empirical keying procedure that determined the items of the clinical. Scales allowed for the inclusion of items that tap into an experience that patients share (distress) regardless of their diagnosis. Tellegen et al. state that the restructured clinical scales were designed to preserve the important descriptive properties of the existing mmpi-2 scales while enhancing their distinctiveness . The distress items were removed from each clinical scale and used to create a new scale demoralization)
