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Behavioral correlates for within‐normal‐limit MMPI profiles with and without elevated K in students at a university mental health center
Author(s) -
Kelley Crystal K.,
King Glen D.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197807)34:3<695::aid-jclp2270340324>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , center (category theory) , clinical psychology , mental health , limit (mathematics) , psychiatry , personality , social psychology , chemistry , crystallography , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Young adults who were attending a college student mental health center and who obtained MMPI profiles with clinical scales within normal limits with and without elevated K were compared to all other patients at the center on 175 descriptors obtained from intake interviews. Those items that discriminated (x 2 , P < 0.05) students who obtained these profile types from others are reported as tentative MMPI interpretive correlates for patients in similar settings. Correlates ranged from those indicative of situational difficulties to serious psychopathology, and clear sex differences were present. It is concluded that within‐normal‐limit profiles do not indicate psychological normality when they occur in such a setting and that useful interpretive information can be identified for these, as well as clinically elevated profile types.