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Spirituality and the MMPI‐2
Author(s) -
MacDonald Douglas A.,
Holland Daniel
Publication year - 2003
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/jclp.10047
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , hypomania , operationalization , spirituality , clinical psychology , personality , personality test , psychometrics , scale (ratio) , social psychology , test validity , mood , mania , medicine , philosophy , alternative medicine , physics , epistemology , pathology , quantum mechanics , bipolar disorder
The present investigation was an exploratory examination of the relation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory‐2 (MMPI‐2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) Clinical scales to spirituality operationalized in terms of self‐reported religious involvement and scores on a multidimensional measure called the Expressions of Spirituality Inventory (ESI; MacDonald, 1997, 2000). MANOVA and correlational results indicate that the MMPI‐2 Clinical scales generate patterns of findings consistent with available research on spirituality and health. In particular, persons reporting involvement in organized religion obtained significantly lower MMPI‐2 Clinical scale scores and were found to be less likely to obtain a clinically significant score (i.e., t ‐scores >64) on any of the MMPI‐2 scales. Further, with the exception of Masculine‐Feminine and Hypomania, all MMPI‐2 scales were found to associate appreciably with ESI dimension scores. The study concludes with a brief discussion of the meaning and implications of the findings for future research aimed at investigating the relation of spirituality to health. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 59: 399–410, 2003.