Selected MMPI Items That Identified College Women Who Reported Early Sexual Abuse

Roland, Billy C.; Zelhart, Paul F.; Dubes, Richard

doi:10.2466/pr0.1988.63.2.447

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“…Roland, et al (1988) speculate that "more work should be done to assess whether the MMPI is sensitive to measured severity of trauma associated with types of sexual assaults" (p. 450). The current results suggest that differentiating between levels of abuse improves correct classification significantly, since individuals having experienced exclusively least traumatogenic abuse may not necessarily suffer from the childhood sexualabuse trauma.…”

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“…These studies had difficulties differentiating people with experiences of childhood sexual abuse from people with adverse family backgrounds such as alcoholic caretakers (Goldwater & Duffy, 1990) or parental over-or underinvolvement (Gilberstadt & Duker, 1965;Good & Banter, 1974;Marks & Seeman, 1963). Most successful has been an attempt to extract 63 MMPI items that, taken as a separate scale, correctly classified inhviduals as belonging to a childhood sexual abuse reporting group or no-abuse reporting group in 84% of the cases (Roland, Zelhart, & Dubes, 1988). This scale may alert chnicians early on in treatment towards the possibhty of trauma sustained from childhood sexual abuse.…”

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“…The idenufied items, taken as a separate subscale on the MMPI-2, should differentiate between the abuse reporting group and no-abuse reporting group in 84% (as obtained by Roland, et al, 1988) or more of the cases.…”

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An MMPI-2 Scale to Identify History of Sexual Abuse

Korbanka¹

1997

Psychol Rep

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This study attempted to extract an MMPI-2 scale identifying adult male and female victims of severely traumatogenic childhood sexual abuse. Such a scale might aid in the early detection and diagnosis of trauma sustained from abuse and lead to prevention of childhood sexual abuse in subsequent generations since victims are more likely to expose their offspring to similar abuse. Victims of severe childhood sexual abuse almost inevitably suffer from trauma. Taking the severity of abuse into consideration, a higher identification rate than the one obtained in previous attempts was expected. The sample (N = 201), recruited from a low-fee outpatient clinic and a community mental health center, was divided into a severe childhood sexual abuse-reporting group and a control group, based on Russell's (1983) definitions. To cross validate, the data were analyzed three ways. A stepwise discriminant function analysis based on Wilks Lambda yielded 95% correct classification (using 52 MMPI-2 items), a discriminant function analysis based on chi-squared yielded 77% classification (using 63 items), and a stepwise logit analysis yielded 71% classification (using 15 items). There was little agreement among the items identified by the three solutions.

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