Factor structure of the overcontrolled-hostility scale of the MMPI

✍ Scribed by Glenn D. Walters; Roger L. Greene

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198307)39:4<560::aid-jclp2270390416>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

Conducted a factor analysis of the 3 1-item Overcontrolled-Hostility (0-H) scale in a sample of 200 incarcerated male prisoners. Five major factors were derived: Absence of Manifest Symptomatology, Denial, Chronic Hostility, Persistent Dreaming, and Social Compliance. Subscales comprised of high-loading items (2.30) were constructed for each factor, and the personality correlates of each were determined. Megargee, Cook, and Mendelsohn (1967) developed the Overcontrolled-Hostility (0-H) scale in an attempt to identify assaultive individuals. They found that persons who elevated the 0-H scale were chronically angry, but exerted rigid control over its expression. These correlates of elevated 0-H scores have been replicated in samples of in- carcerated criminal offenders (Deiker, 1974), forensic psychiatric inpatients (Lane & Kling, 1979), and psychiatric outpatients (Walters, Greene, & Solomon, 1982). Additional correlates also have been documented, including lack of overt anxiety (Lane &