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Validation of the Megargee Typology in a Halfway House Setting

U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri

ROBERT KABACOFF

University of Missouri, St. Louis

PAUL DUCKRO

St. Louis University Medical Center

This study attempts to replicate the derivation of the MMPI classification system developed by Megargee and his collaborators. Several studies attempt to cross-validate the classification system by applying the sorting rules to different populations. Only one other study has tried to replicate the derivation of the types. The results of the present study, using a diverse halfway house population, are largely supportive of the Megargee types, but types Baker, Easy, and Jupiter failed to replicate. Suggestions are made for improving the test-retest reliability of the classification system, and implications for future research are proposed.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 10, No. 3, 252-262 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854883010003002


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