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The article presents information on the norms for the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory with student nurses. Clinical experience has indicated the need for special norms on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) for college students and other groups such as student nurses. This paper presents MMPI T scores secured from a normative group of 168 student nurses. The scores of freshman student nurses did not differ significantly from those of the whole group.

The article discusses a method of weighting attitude scale items from subject responses. The most widely used technique for studying attitudes is the "rating scale" method. The scale usually consists of a group of statements which have been assigned differential weights. The subject indicates which statements he endorses and his final score may be the mean, median, or sum of weights for the endorsed statements. The purpose of this paper is to present a method of weighting attitude scale items from the responses of subjects. An attitude scale of 45 statements was constructed and administered to 586 students who were all freshmen at the University of South Carolina. Each statement was weighted according to a system based on the number of times it was endorsed by members of this group.