TY - JOUR
AU - Comrey, Andrew L.
AB - A FACTOR ANALYSIS OF ITEMS ON THE MMPI HYPOCHONDRIASIS SCALE' ANDREW L. COMREY The University of California at Los Angeles PROBABLY no test in the personality field has enjoyed such great popularity and wide use as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (3). This wide usage suggests that the test has many desirable features, and most psychologists would probably agree that it does. Certain weaknesses also exist in the MMPI, however. It is well established that the a considerable degree in many abnormal scales overlap to instances. Wheeler, Little, and Lehner, for example, report a correlation of .86 between the Sc and Pt scales, .77 between the Sc and F scales, and .73 between the Hs and each of the D and Hy scales (7). An examination of the intercorrelations among items on the abnormal scales leads one to question how the existing grouping can be justified. Factor analyses of MMPI scales have been published from time to time, but valuable as these studies are, they do not help greatly in the problem of determining the factor content of the items them- selves. In view of the marked overlapping variance between scales and the apparent lack of homogeneity within scales, 
TI - A Factor Analysis of Items on the Mmpi Hypochondriasis Scale1
JF - Educational and Psychological Measurement
DO - 10.1177/001316445701700411
DA - 1957-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/a-factor-analysis-of-items-on-the-mmpi-hypochondriasis-scale1-I5C61E01zy
SP - 568
EP - 577
VL - 17
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -