How Intelligent are Organicity Scales of the MMPI?

Author(s)

Arthur M. Horton
Michelle Timmons
Charles J. Golden, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Clinical Neuropsychology

ISSN

0363-8715

Publication Date

1982

Abstract

The WAIS Verbal IQs of 16 psychiatric patients (mean age 53.3 yrs) were not related to 3 measures of organicity derived from the MMPI: the Caudality and Organicity scales developed by J. S. Wiggins (1966) and the Psychiatric-Organic scale of C. G. Watson and D. Plemel (see record 1979-25143-001). However, Performance and Full-Scale IQs were significantly related to the Caudality scale. The Caudality scale may represent a measure of nonverbal intelligence that is sensitive to brain changes. (9 ref)

Volume

4

Issue

4

First Page

170

Last Page

171

NSUWorks Citation

Horton, A. M., Timmons, M., Golden, C. J. (1982). How Intelligent are Organicity Scales of the MMPI?. Clinical Neuropsychology, 4(4), 170-171.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/743