Doctoral Dissertations

Date of Award

12-2002

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Major

Education

Major Professor

R. Steve McCallum

Committee Members

William H. Calhoun, Thomas W. George, Theodore W. Hipple

Abstract

Within the context of a counterbalanced design, 102 students from a high school and a large university in the southeast were administered two versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A): a computer-administered version (CA) and a paper-and-pencil version (PAP). Time between testing sessions was approximately one week. Differences in individual scale means between the CA and PAP were calculated using paired t-tests, with the Bonferroni correction procedure; no mean differences were significant (p. > .05). To determine if the scale distributions were similar, tests of homogeneity of variance were conducted using Hartley's homogeneity of variance tests; there were no differences in the shapes of the scale distributions (p. > .05). Pearson product-moment coefficients were calculated for each scale to determine if the relative rankings were similar; coefficients for every scale were positive and statistically significant (p. < .01). Implications of the findings of this study are discussed.

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