Open AccessMMPI-2 indices of psychological disturbance and attention and memory test performance in head injury
Author(s) -
Scott R. Ross,
Steven H. Putnam,
Carlton S. Gass,
Dan E Bailey,
Kenneth M. Adams
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
archives of clinical neuropsychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1873-5843
pISSN - 0887-6177
DOI - 10.1016/s0887-6177(02)00169-5
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , neuropsychology , neuropsychological test , wechsler memory scale , head injury , california verbal learning test , test (biology) , verbal memory , psychometrics , clinical psychology , audiology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , cognition , personality , medicine , social psychology , paleontology , biology
A number of studies have investigated the relationship between psychological disturbance and neuropsychological (NP) test performance. The current study is a replication and extension of Gass (1996) who found that MMPI-2 indices of psychological disturbance are related to performance on NP tests of attention and memory in psychiatric and head-injured patients. In a large sample ( N =381) referred for evaluation after sustaining presumed head injury, we examined the relationship between MMPI-2 indices of psychological disturbance and measures of attention and memory from the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R; Wechsler, 1987 ), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R; Wechsler, 1981 ), California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT; Delis, Kramer, Kaplan, & Ober, 1987 ), and the Memory Assessment Scales (MAS; Williams, 1991 ). Although related to other domains, MMPI-2 variables were most consistently related to measures of attention and List Learning. Even when demographic variables, injury severity, and litigation status were controlled, MMPI-2 indices significantly predicted performance on six out of eight tests. However, the correspondence between similar indices on the WMS-R and MAS were relatively low, especially for Verbal Memory and Visual Reproduction. Further, litigation was significant in predicting only 2 of 8 attention and memory indices.