MMPI as a Predictor of Weight Loss
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 46 (3), 984-986
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1980.46.3.984
Abstract
30 subjects participating in a study of -weight loss completed the MMPI as part of a pretreatment test battery. At the 7-wk. posttreatment assessment Barron's (1953) ego-strength scale correlated positively with weight loss. The hypochondriasis and hysteria scales correlated negatively with weight loss at 6- and 16-wk. follow-up. These findings point to the possibility of employing the MMPI as a predictor of weight loss.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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