Empirical Correlates of the MMPI–2 Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales in a Nonclinical Setting

Abstract

We examined the empirical correlates of the MMPI–2 Restructured Clinical (RC; Tellegen et al., 2003) scales in a nonclinical setting. We administered 12 criterion measures assessing variables expected to be associated differentially with the RC Scales along with the MMPI–2 to a sample of 1,038 college students (Men, N = 407; Women, N = 631). Criteria included measures of somatization, depression, Machiavellian negativism, drug and alcohol abuse, anger, anxiety, social phobias, obsessive–compulsive tendencies, magical ideation, perceptual aberration, lability, and impulsivity. Results demonstrate good convergent and discriminant validity for the RC scales and add to a growing body of empirical correlates of these scales.

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by a grant from the University of Minnesota Press, publisher of the MMPI–2. Portions of this article were presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment in Chicago in 2005.

Notes

^a Ns for internal consistencies range from 966 to 1,186 for the combined genders.

^a N = 407.

^b N = 631.

No participants completed a paper-and-pencil version of the MMPI–2. However, a number of studies have indicated the comparability of computerized and paper-and-pencil MMPI–2 administration (e.g., Finger & Ones, 1999).

^a N = 407.

^a N = 631