MMPI Correlates with Locus of Control in a Psychiatric Population

Lottman, Thomas J.; Davis, William E.; Gustafson, Robert C.

doi:10.1080/00223891.1973.10119832

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“…The I-E scale correlated negatively with the MMPI defensiveness (K) scale (-.30) and positively with the anxiety (PT) (.25), and Repression-Sensitization (R-S) scales (.30), which indicates that internality is associated with greater defensiveness, lesser anxiety, and more of a tendency toward repression. These results are consistent with previous findings (Burnes et al, 1971;Goss & Morosko, 1970;Lottman et al, 1973).…”

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“…Pain patient scores were less internal than alcoholics (Goss & Morosko, 1970;Lottman et al, 1973) but more internal than college students (Rotter, 1966;Shriberg, 1972). The I-E scale correlated negatively with the MMPI defensiveness (K) scale (-.30) and positively with the anxiety (PT) (.25), and Repression-Sensitization (R-S) scales (.30), which indicates that internality is associated with greater defensiveness, lesser anxiety, and more of a tendency toward repression.…”

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“…Studies that used college samples have confirmed this low correlation between social desirability and the I-E Scale (Hjelle, 1971;Vuchinich & Bass, 1974). Studies that examined the relationship between the locus of control dimension and the MMPI, which contains scales that assess response set tendencies, have emphasized the significant relationship between the I-E Scale and the Depression (D) and Psychasthenia (PT) Scales; however, they have noted significant negative correlations with the K (defensiveness) and positive correlations with the F (unusual items) Scales (Burnes, Brown, & Keating, 1971;Goss & Morosko, 1970;Lottman, Davis, & Gustafson, 1973).…”

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Locus of control, repression-sensitization, and psychological disorder in chronic pain patients

McCreary

Turner

1984

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Examined the relationship between locus of control and psychological disorder in chronic pain patients controlling for the effects of response sets. Fifty‐nine patients with chronic low back pain were given Rotter's Internal‐External Locus of Control (I‐E) scale and the MMPI. Multiple regression analysis showed that the MMPI K, F, and PT scales produced the most efficient prediction of I‐E scores. Response set tendencies to dramatize problems and traits that involve excessive rumination and self‐doubt were related to external locus of control.

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Locus of control, repression-sensitization, and psychological disorder in chronic pain patients

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Turner

1984

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“…Additionally, results from prior studies suggested that neurotic disorders would be more frequently associated with patients' reporting higher trait anxiety, and conduct disorder diagnoses would be associated with patients' endorsing lower levels of trait anxiety (Martin, 1971). Reviewing the locus of control literature (Joe, 1971;Shybut, 1968;Smith, Pryer, & Distefano, 1971), it was also predicted that externals would report higher levels of psychopathology than internals on the MMPI, although results from at least one correlational study questioned this expectation (Hottman, Davis, & Gustafson, 1973). In view of these hypotheses, it was logical that high-traitanxious externals (HA-E) would report higher levels of psychopathology than lowtrait-anxious internals (LA-I).…”

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Generalized expectancies of control, trait anxiety, and psychopathology among psychiatric inpatients.

Archer¹

1980

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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This study examined relationships between locus of control, trait anxiety, and psychopathology among 186 psychiatric inpatients. Subjects were 92 females and 94 males evaluated within 72 hours of residential admission with locus of control and trait anxiety scales and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Additional data were collected for each patient on admission diagnosis and type of discharge following treatment. Univariate and multivariate analyses showed higher trait anxiety levels and more external locus of control orientations to be related to greater psychopathology on multiple MMPI scale indices. Chi-square analyses also revealed that internals more frequently left the program against medical advice (AMA) than did external patients and that locus of control and anxiety bore complex interactional relationships to diagnostic category. In particular, low-anxious externals had the highest frequency of conduct-disordered patients, whereas high-anxious internals held the highest frequency of neurotic assignments and the lowest frequency of psychotic diagnoses. Findings are interpreted in terms of the relative importance of trait anxiety and locus of control in MMPI response and diagnostic differences. Discussion also centers on the characteristics of internals, identified in prior research, that were potentially relevant to their higher frequency of AMA discharges.

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Internal-external control and withdrawal AMA from an alcohol rehabilitation program

Schofield¹

1978

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Male and female alcoholics who were participating in an in-patient rehabilitation program were given the Rotter internal-external control scale in order to determine whether there were differences between those who leave against medical advice vs. those who complete treatment. It was anticipated that AMA patients would have significantly higher scores than completers. The hypothesis was given some support for males (p less than .06) and was not supported for females. Males and younger patients also were more inclined to leave against medical advice.

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MMPI Correlates with Locus of Control in a Psychiatric Population

Cited by 7 publications

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Locus of control, repression-sensitization, and psychological disorder in chronic pain patients

Locus of control, repression-sensitization, and psychological disorder in chronic pain patients

Generalized expectancies of control, trait anxiety, and psychopathology among psychiatric inpatients.

Internal-external control and withdrawal AMA from an alcohol rehabilitation program

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