MMPI content scales: Dimensional structure, construct validity, and interpretive norms in a psychiatric population.

Veridicality of self-report: Replicated correlates of the Wiggins MMPI content scales.

“…(Wiggins, 1969). Additional construct validity has been demonstrated in a study that related content scale elevation to clinical profile code-type correlates (Payne & Wiggins, 1972), in studies that compared scale scores of groups differing in composition (Cohler, Grunebaum, Weiss, Hartman, & Gallant, 1975;Jarnecke & Chambers, 1977;Mezzich, Damarin, & Erickson, 1974;O'Neil, Teague, Lushene, & Davenport, 1975), as well as in studies that correlated content scale scores with other MMPI scales and other personality measures (Derogatis, Rickels, & Rock, 1976;Hoffmann & Jackson, 1976;Taylor, Ptacek, Carithers, Griffin, & Coyne, 1972;Wiggins, Goldberg, & Appelbaum, 1971). Wiggins (1966) suggested that the content scales may serve as a supplementary source of information to interpretations derived from the empirically keyed MMPI profile scales.…”

Wiggins Content Scales and the MMPI-2

“…One of the more obvious changes found on the MMPI-2 is the elimination of the Wiggins Content Scales. These scales have been standardized on a variety of populations (Archer, 1987;Fowler & Coyle, 1969;Jarnecke & Chambers, 1977;Lachar & Alexander, 1978;Larchar, Dahlstrom, & Moreland, 1986;Lachar, Gdowski, & Keegan, 1979;Payne & Wiggins, 1972) and have been found to be related to other personality factors (Carlson, 1978;Derogatis, Rickels, & Rock, 1976;Hoffman & Jackson, 1976;Wiggins, Goldberg, & Applebaum, 1971). The normative data for these scales recently have been revised (Colligan & Offord, 1988), and traditional texts on the MMPI speak highly of these scales as a means to gain additional information for the interpretation of the MMPI (Graham, 1987;Greene, 1980).…”