New Spanish versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) were assessed with the Spanish translation of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) as the gold standard. Findings from categorical and dimensional analyses suggest that, although the degree of diagnostic concordance of both measures with the DIS was found to be moderately high, the MMPI-2 clinical scales yielded greater specificity but lower sensitivity than the PAI scales on two of four diagnostic categories (i.e., Major Depression, and Schizophrenia). Both measures failed to correctly diagnose Anxiety Disorders, while the MMPI-2 also showed poor diagnostic accuracy with Alcohol Dependence.

This study is an investigation of the general questions Is there a relationship or interaction between a subject's dogmatism score (as measured by the Dogmatism Scale) and his self-rating of the perceived stereotypical masculinity-femininity dimension (as measured by the abridged Mf scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)?

This study was undertaken to determine whether the Mini-Mult is able to function as well as the MMPI for a limited clinical purpose, the discrimination of psychosis and neurosis by Goldberg's rule. The smaller size of the Mini-Mult (71 items) allows conservation of time .and energy by subjects and professionals. Thirty male residents of the Austin State Hospital completed two standard MMPIs and one oral Mini-Mult. A fourth set of scores was obtained by extracting Mini-Mult from the first MMPI. Correlations and tests of significance were computed for raw scores and Goldberg's index scores. Results indicate no significant differences in the discrimination of psychosis and neurosis between the MMPI and the Mini-Mult.

The following experimental study was conducted to test these hypotheses. The subjects used in the study were twenty-five males and twenty-five females from undergraduate courses in psychology at the freshman and sophomore levels. Procedure.--Each subject was administered the Rorschach test, in the manner described by Beck (1961), except that the subject was seated facing the test administrator. Each subject was also administered the MMPI, using,.Form R.

by King-wai Frank Leung. / Questionaire in Chinese. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-58). / Abstract --- p.5 / Chapter / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.6 / The Importance of Personality and Social Background to Delinquency --- p.6 / Brief Description of the MMPI --- p.8 / Development of the MMPI Scales --- p.9 / The Use of MMPI with Adolescents --- p.12 / The Use of MMPI with Juvenile Delinquents --- p.15 / The Use of MacAndrev Alcoholic Scales vith Adolescents --- p.17 / Cross-Cultural Application of MMPI in Hong Kong… --- p.18 / Purpose of the Study --- p.20 / Chapter II. --- Methodoiogy --- p.28 / Subjects --- p.23 / Instruments --- p.30 / Procedure --- p.32 / Chapter III. --- Results --- p.34 / Chapter IV. --- Discussion --- p.42 / References --- p.50 / Appendices --- p.59 / Acknowledgement --- p.81 / Notes --- p.82

A descoberta de petróleo na camada do Pré-Sal fez com que a Petrobras envestisse cerca de 240 bilhões de dólares. Uma etapa crítica desta indústria é o transporte de petróleo, que envolve o sistema água-óleo. O objetivo do presente trabalho é estudar uma corrente água-óleo em um tubo reto e em uma curva, com o intuito de gerar perfis de velocidades, pressões e densidades em CFD. Para as simulações desenvolvidas foram considerados: fluxo 3D, escoamento turbulento na fase óleo e escoamento laminar na fase água, isotérmico e incompressível. Foram realizados estudos nos estados estacionário e transiente. Foi desenvolvido o estudo de convergência da malha. As ferramentas do Phoenics utilizadas para representar a interação entre as fases foram o IPSA e o Algebraic Slip. O IPSA resolve as equações de Navier-Stokes para cada fase. No Algebraic Slip, postula-se que existe um meio contínuo em que existem vários componentes da fase dispersos, podendo estes ser gotas, bolhas ou partículas sólidas. A turbulência foi avaliada utilizando os modelos K- padrão e o K-, porém só houve redução considerável dos resíduos para o K- Padrão. As densidades geradas nas simulações em CFD foram comparadas visualmente com os resultados experimentais obtidos em trabalho anterior para fluxo multifásico. As quedas de pressão obtidas em simulação foram comparadas com os dados da literatura, onde foi possível observar a grande redução da perda de carga ao utilizar a técnica de envolver o óleo com um anel de água na tubulação. As simulações realizadas com o modelo Algebraic Slip, e o modelo de turbulência foram consideradas como validadas. / With the discovery of oil in the pre-salt layer, Petrobras was encouraged to invest about 240 billion dollars. A critical point of this industry is the oil transport, which encompasses oil-water system. The objective of the present work is to study the flow of water and oil into a tube and an elbow, in order to generate distributions of velocity, pressure and density by using a CFD tool. To develop simulations the following is assumed: 3D flow, turbulent flow in oil phase and laminar flow in water phase, isotherm and incompressible flow. Steady-state and transient studies have been done. The mesh convergence has been carried out. The IPSA and Algebraic slip were the Phoenics tools that were used to represent the phases interaction. The IPSA solves the Navier-Stokes equations for each phase. In the Algebraic Slip model, one assumes that a continuum mean exists where the other components are dispersed, which can be bubbles or solid particles. The turbulence was evaluated by using K- standard and K- models; however, the considerable reduction of residue to the K- Standard was observed. The densities modeled by CFD were visually compared to the experimental results that were obtained in a previous work for a multiphase flow. The simulations of head loss were compared to literature data, and it can be seen a big difference between the head loss that was obtained by using water and that no using water. The simulations of Algebraic Slip model and the use of turbulence model were considered as validated.

Thesis (MPH.) --University of Limpopo, 2009 / Please refer to the document

This study examined the effectiveness of the MMPI in identifying juvenile sex offenders. This study examined the hypothesis that previously identified subscales of the MMPI (i.e., Toobert et al. (1959) Pe scale and Dolan (1986) Ic scale) could be used in discriminating juvenile sex offenders (n=l 02) (and subgroups of juvenile sex offenders i.e., pedophiles n=79, and incest perpetrators n=41) from a control group of 40 juvenile offenders who had been adjudicated for non-sex related crimes. The study yielded results which indicate that the Pe subscale was not effective in discriminating pedophiles from non-pedophile sex offenders or from the control group. The results also indicated that the Ic subscale was not effective in discriminating incest perpetrators from non-incest sex offenders or the control group. The results from the data also indicate that the control group appeared more pathological than the sex offender group, based on their respective MMPI profiles. In addition, in comparison with previous research on adult sex offenders, there appears to be differences between adult sex offenders and juvenile sex offenders when comparing mean two point code scores. Problems in defining subgroups were discussed. A lack of research in the area of juvenile sex offenders was identified and a strong recommendation for further research in this area was made.

Chronic back pain is a serious problem in the U.S. for which about 10% of back pain sufferers will undergo elective surgery. Unfortunately, back surgery is not successful in alleviating back pain in a substantial number of surgery patients. Various psychological and psychosocial variables have a demonstrated relationship to back surgery outcome. The most widely used personality test used to predict back surgery outcome is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPJ). Past research has shown that elevations on three MMPI clinical scales (Hs, D, and Hy) are positively correlated with poor back surgery outcome. The current prospective study shows a similar pattern using the MMPI-2 to predict surgery outcome for 60 low back pain patients. It appears that past MMPI research in this area is applicable to the use of MMPI-2. These results also suggest that when MMPI-2 variables are combined with demographic and surgical variables, patients more likely to experience poor surgical outcome can be identified. There is evidence that elevations of the conversion V profile of the MMPI-2 may prospectively differentiate between successful and nonsuccessful surgery outcomes.

The objective of this study is to test if the hypothesis of the environmental gerontology theory can be applied to a cross-cultural environment. This study examined the applicability and functionality of the Multiphasic Environmental Assessment Procedure (MEAP), a tool based on the environmental gerontology theory, and assessed the quality of elderly care facilities in Taiwan. Special emphasis was placed in examining the functionality of the MEAP from the cross-cultural standpoint and also in identifying the associations or potential impacting factors of care quality. This is the first study with the application of the MEAP to examine the quality of the two major care facilities in Taiwan. Results of this study provide not only an insight into the characteristics of the elderly care facilities ,and a reference for policy making and regulation, but also valuable data for cross-cultural comparisons. The study employed the MEAP to achieve the stated objectives and further evaluated the differences in the characteristics of the two major elderly care facilities, namely the nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in Kaohsiung city in Taiwan. This cross-sectional research was conducted with questionnaires by 687 employees (excluding foreign workers) and 429 residents in 35 nursing homes and 41 assisted living facilities in Kaohsiung city were interviewed. Participants were selected from residents who were conscious and without cognitive disorder for face-to-face questionnaire interviews. For facilities with ten or more residents, 50% of the eligible residents were selected for this interview. For facilities having less than ten residents, all those qualified residents were interviewed. Results were analyzed on the basis of institutional units rather than the individual basis. Results showed that the MEAP effectively evaluated the associations of the multiple environmental factors with the quality of life of the two major elderly care facilities in Kaohsiung city. Standardized multiple quality indexes mode showed that the assisted-living facilities have better overall quality than nursing homes do. The major findings are: 1.The major residents of elderly care facilities in Kaohsiung city were the socioeconomically less privileged residents, including house wifes, the disabled, and widowed. The service most needed was personal care such as bathing. 2.Based on the MEAP, a total of eight significant variables were compared between nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Among these variables, nursing homes were better in staff resource than that of the assisted living facilities. Assisted-living facilities were better in all other seven variables including functional abilities, activities in community, acceptance of problem behavior, physical amenities, social-recreational aids, and orientational aids and staff facilities. 3.The staff members of both nursing homes and assisted living facilities have better SCES than that of their residents. 4.Compared to assisted living facilities, the nursing homes were superior in staff level and staff resources but inferior in comfort, security, and control. No differences were observed in services, autonomy, rapport and morale. 5.The characteristics of organizational management, such as ownership, type and size, were important impacting factors of care quality. The nonprofit-nursing homes were better scored in six of the eight quality indexes than the ones owned by privately-for-profit. 6.Factors that influenced the quality of the nursing homes include number of workers, number of beds, number of residents, ownership, functional abilities, actively level, activities in community, occupancy rate and type of elderly care facility. 7.Factors that influenced the quality of assisted living facilities include occupancy rate, number of residents, number of workers, activity level and type of elderly care facility. 8.The regression model for the outcome of multiple environmental quality indexes with the structure and process indexes is related in nursing homes. The regression model indicates that the model significantly predicted outcome quality index (morale) (R2 = 49.4%). Both structure quality index (comfort and safety) and process quality index (autonomy and rapport) were significant predicting factors of outcome quality index (morale). Autonomy was a negative predicting factor. 9.Standardized multiple environmental quality index indicated that based on the MEAP, assisted living facilities had a little bit higher quality than that of nursing homes in Kaohsiung city. In conclusion, this study confirmed the hypothesis that the MEAP can be applied effectively to evaluate the quality of elderly care facilities in a cross-cultural environment. However, cultural differences do have an impact on the functionality of the tool. Results of this study indicate that the two major elderly care facilities in Kaohsiung city have relatively similar characteristics, but the assisted living facilities are slightly better in overall quality than that of nursing homes. The major factors that impact the quality of elderly care facilities are the operational characteristics and efficience. Results of this study indicate that the MEAP provides very useful indicators for assessing the quality of elderly care facilities in Taiwan, especially for nursing homes. The MEAP identified more structure and process-related impacting factors than outcome-related impacting factors in this study. Concerning cultural difference, the MEAP could be benefited from some modification in certain measurements, especially in facility atmosphere(SCES), when applied in Taiwan.