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Relations between coercive strategies and MMPI‐2 scale elevations among women survivors of childhood sexual abuse
Author(s) -
Lucenko Barbara A.,
Gold Steven N.,
Elhai Jon D.,
Russo Stephen A.,
Swingle Janine M.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1023/a:1007785201112
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , paranoia , sexual coercion , clinical psychology , psychiatry , sexual abuse , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , personality , poison control , injury prevention , medicine , social psychology , environmental health
The relationship between coercion strategies used by perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and elevations of CSA survivors on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory‐2 (MMPI‐2) was investigated. Participants were 151 women survivors of CSA in outpatient treatment at a university‐based community mental health center. Scores on the MMPI‐2 clinical scales and the Keane posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) scale were examined. Main effects were found for promised or received rewards on several clinical scales and the PTSD scale of the MMPI‐2, independent of the presence of force. Specifically, the presence of such rewards was associated with significantly higher levels of symptomatology on Paranoia (Pa), Psychasthenia (Pt), Schizophrenia (Sc), and PTSD (Pk). There were no main or interaction effects noted for the presence of actual or threatened force on any of the scales.