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MMPI profile patterns of emotional disability claimants
Author(s) -
Hersch Paul D.,
Alexander Ralph W.
Publication year - 1990
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(199011)46:6<795::aid-jclp2270460617>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , somatization , psychogenic disease , hysteria , compensation (psychology) , psychopathology , clinical psychology , sample (material) , malingering , psychiatry , personality , mental health , social psychology , chemistry , chromatography
MMPI profiles of 185 Pacific Bell employees referred for psychological evaluation were compared to a sample of 200 seen for psychiatric evaluation related to Workers' Compensation litigation. In both samples, an almost identical percentage of MMPI profiles reflected significant psychopathology (85% vs. 83%). In the Pacific Bell sample, there were almost twice as many MMPIs of questionable validity (16%) as in the Worker's Compensation study (7%). The most striking finding is that the same five two‐point Code‐Types were the most frequently occurring in both samples; they accounted for about half of the profiles in each study. Three of these Code‐Types, 12/21, 13/31, and 23/32, which involve the Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria scales, represented 38% of the Workers' Compensation and 26% of the Pacific Bell samples. These three Code‐Types are characteristic of somatization of psychogenic complaints.