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The MMPI‐2 in sexual harassment and discrimination litigants
Author(s) -
Long Barbara,
Rouse Steven V.,
Nelsen R. Owen,
Butcher James N.
Publication year - 2004
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.10269
Subject(s) - harassment , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , personality
In order to understand patterns of respondents on validity and clinical scales, this study analyzed archival Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2s (MMPI‐2s) produced by 192 women and 14 men who initiated legal claims of ongoing emotional harm related to workplace sexual harassment and discrimination. The MMPI‐2s were administered as a part of a comprehensive psychiatric forensic evaluation of the claimants' current psychological condition. All validity and clinical scale scores were manually entered into the computer, and codetype and cluster analyses were obtained. Among the women, 28% produced a “normal limits” profile, providing no MMPI‐2 support for their claims of ongoing emotional distress. Cluster analysis of the validity scales of the remaining profiles produced four distinctive clusters of profiles representing different approaches to the test items. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.