Correlates of the MMPI-A Immaturity ( IMM ) Scale in an Adolescent Psychiatric Sample

Abstract

The Immaturity ( IMM) scale was developed for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) to provide an objective measure of ego development or maturation. The present study examines the concurrent validity of the IMM scale based on a residential treatment sample of 66 adolescents, ages 13 through 18 years. Participants were administered the MMPI-A, the Defining Issues Test (DIT), a short form of the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT), the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status-2nd Revision (EOM-EIS-2), and standardized measures of intelligence and reading ability. The results of this study provide evidence of the concurrent validity of the IMM scale, and a number of correlate descriptors are reported for the IMM scale.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 8 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.