MacAndrew Scale and sociodemographic correlates of adolescent alcohol and drug use.

@article{Wisniewski1985MacAndrewSA,
  title={MacAndrew Scale and sociodemographic correlates of adolescent alcohol and drug use.},
  author={N M Wisniewski and David S. Glenwick and John R . Graham},
  journal={Addictive behaviors},
  year={1985},
  volume={10 1},
  pages={
          55-67
        }
}
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Development of MMPI-A alcohol/drug problem scales.
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The reliability and construct validity of two measures of addictive personality.
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Correlations with other personality measures indicate that the Alcoholism Scale (MAC) is more associated with extraversion-related characteristics whereas the Addiction Scale (AS), which was completed by 615 men and 642 women as part of the Winnipeg Health and Drinking Survey, a longitudinal study of personality and health.
MacAndrew versus MacAndrew: the relative efficacy of the MAC and the SAP scales for the MMPI in screening male adolescents for substance misuse.
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The efficacy of the MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale and the Substance Abuse Proclivity Scale are compared using a sample of 436 young males between the ages of 13 and 25, who were hospitalized because of substance abuse, and 770 normal young Males between the age of 13-25.
The Drug Involvement Scale for Adolescents (Disa)
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The results suggest the DISA should be useful for capturing a multidimensional view of adolescent drug involvement in both etiologic and prevention studies.
Assessing Contemporary Substance Abusers with the MMPI Mac Andrews Alcoholism Scale: A Review
  • R. Craig
  • Psychology, Medicine
    Substance use & misuse
  • 2005
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The MAC/MAC-R does well in discriminating persons who abuse substances compared to nonclinical, nonabusing groups, but appears to lose diagnostic efficiency with psychiatric patients, and especially with medical patients with seizure disorders.
Discriminative validity of the MacAndrew Scale in settings with a high base rate of substance abuse.
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Results indicated the MAC scale is not an efficacious discriminator in settings with a high base rate of substance abusers.
Personality characteristics among adolescent substance-abusers utilizing various MMPI scales
The focus of this study was to determine if certain personality traits could be detected within a population of substance-abusing adolescents. The Depression (d)f Psycho­ pathic Deviant (Pd),…
A prospective study of the utility of standardized instruments in predicting recidivism among first DWI offenders.
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The MAC was the best, single variable for classifying offenders' future recidivism risk, indicating that, in addition to evaluating for the presence and severity of alcohol and drug use, screening programs for DWI offenders should carefully evaluate personality factors in making referral and sentencing recommendations.
The relative performance of diverse measures of alcohol abuse and dependence in a community sample.
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Alternative approaches for various survey purposes are discussed, and measures to be regarded as alternatives to the DIS-III-R are found to perform better in that role in samples limited by age and gender.
A Meta-Analytic Review of the MaCandrew Alcoholism Scale
Using a meta-analytic approach, the authors examined the predictive validity of scores on the MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale. Across 161 studies involving a total sample of 31,320 individuals, the…
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