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What's in a name? The MMPI‐2 PTSD scales
Journal article

What's in a name? The MMPI‐2 PTSD scales

Abstract

The MMPI-2 post-traumatic stress disorder scales (PK and PS) were examined with a sample of 96 outpatient anxiety disorder and 97 outpatient traffic accident subjects. PK and PS correlated .96 and showed highly similar correlations with MMPI-2 validity, clinical, content and supplementary scales for both groups, which indicated that these scales are indices of MMPI first-factor variance. This was supported by separate principal components …

Authors

Miller HR; Goldberg JO; Streiner DL

Journal

Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 626–631

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

September 1995

DOI

10.1002/1097-4679(199509)51:5<626::aid-jclp2270510507>3.0.co;2-f

ISSN

0021-9762