The abnormality of normal comparison groups: the identification of psychosis proneness and substance abuse in putatively normal research subjects
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 September 1993
Robert W. Butler, Michael A. Jenkins, David Braff
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The results indicate that an adequate substance abuse evaluation is extremely important and that brief self-report information may be misleading, and empirical derived assessment tools, such as the MMPI, may prove useful in allowing researchers to more accurately define control parameters and group membership.
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It is becoming increasingly apparent that the cursory self-report screening of normal subjects may result in unacceptable levels of psychopathology in comparison groups. The current results also indicate that an adequate substance abuse evaluation is extremely important and that brief self-report information may be misleading. Empirically derived assessment tools, such as the MMPI, may prove useful in allowing researchers to more accurately define control parameters and group membership.
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