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The Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults

Internal Consistencies and Relationship to Behaviour Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

P. Sturmey  and
T. Ley
P. Sturmey*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Birmingham B15 2TT
T. Ley
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Plymouth Health Authority
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults, a recently developed, empirically derived measure of psychiatric disturbance for the mentally handicapped, gives a total of eight scales which correspond to DSM–III diagnostic categories. This paper reports its psychometric properties in a British population and the psychometric properties of three scales derived by factor analysis. The internal consistencies of the scales were only barely acceptable in this sample and less acceptable than in previous studies.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 428 - 430
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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