Egeland B, Erickson M F, Butcher J N, Ben-Porath Y S
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
J Pers Assess. 1991 Oct;57(2):254-63. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa5702_5.
This study addresses the utility of the MMPI-2 in assessing personality characteristics of women who have a high potential for abusing their children. A sample of 154 women was identified on the basis of demographic characteristics as high risk for child abuse and other care-taking problems. They were evaluated (with the MMPI-2-AX form) during their pregnancy and are being followed up as part of the evaluation of a prevention/intervention program. This preliminary study compares the MMPI-2 personality characteristics of 146 of these women with several control samples: 1,462 women from the MMPI restandardization sample, 466 low education women from the restandardization sample, 84 pregnant women from the restandardization sample, and 167 women military recruits who are about the same age as the experimental group. The results show that, on the MMPI-2 clinical scales, women from the high-risk sample closely resemble child-abusing parents described in the previous MMPI literature. Moreover, these women differed significantly from all of the comparison groups on a number of MMPI-2 clinical and content scales. The clinical implications of these differences are discussed.
本研究探讨了明尼苏达多相人格测验第二版（MMPI-2）在评估有虐待子女高风险女性的人格特征方面的效用。基于人口统计学特征，选取了154名女性作为有虐待儿童及其他照料问题高风险的样本。她们在孕期接受了（使用MMPI-2-AX形式）评估，并作为预防/干预项目评估的一部分接受随访。这项初步研究将其中146名女性的MMPI-2人格特征与几个对照组进行了比较：来自MMPI重新标准化样本的1462名女性、来自重新标准化样本的466名低学历女性、来自重新标准化样本的84名孕妇以及167名与实验组年龄相仿的女性新兵。结果显示，在MMPI-2临床量表上，高风险样本中的女性与先前MMPI文献中描述的虐待儿童的父母极为相似。此外，这些女性在多个MMPI-2临床量表和内容量表上与所有对照组均存在显著差异。文中讨论了这些差异的临床意义。
