A correlational study of the Community Adaptation Schedule and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

The Community Adaptation Schedule (CAS) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) were administered to 45 prisoners at a Federal prison and 40 nonprisoners at a vocational-technical school in order to explore the relationships between the CAS scales and 93 clinical and experimental MMPI scales. The CAS scores correlated with MMPI scales in a pattern consistent with the construct of community adaptation as assessed by the CAS. Implications of the study for further development of the CAS were discussed.This study was part of a Master's Thesis submitted to the Department of Psychology and was supported by a grant from the Council on Training and Research of the Florida Division of Mental Health. References for MMPI scales not listed in Dahlstrom and Welsh (1960) may be obtained from Dr. Cook.