Relating PACL measures of millon's basic personality styles and MMPI-2 scales in patient and normal samples
✍ Scribed by Stephen Strack; Luis F. Guevara
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Millon's basic personality styles as measured by the Personality Adjective Check List (PACL;Strack, 1987Strack, , 1991b) ) were linked to Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) basic scales via bivariate correlation and factor analysis in independent samples of psychiatric patients (N ϭ 196) and normal adults (N ϭ 124). Consistent with previous research, Millon's neurotic, introverted styles were positively associated with MMPI-2 scales measuring introversion, affective states, and disturbed thinking, whereas extroverted, socially dominant Millon styles were negatively associated to the same scales. Millon personalities and MMPI-2 scales were reliably associated along two bipolar dimensions measuring Neuroticism/ Introversion versus Extroversion and Emotional Distress versus Emotional Stability, which accounted for 45% of the variance. A third General Distress factor loaded only MMPI-2 scales. Congruency coefficients indicated that the factors for patients and normal participants were very similar. Results highlighted the consistency of the links between MMPI-2 basic scales, the PACL, and other Millon instruments, as well as the utility of the PACL as a measure of Millon's personality styles in a mental health population.