Snyder D K, Regts J M
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-4235.
J Sex Marital Ther. 1990 Spring;16(1):34-43. doi: 10.1080/00926239008405964.
This study examined the relationship between personality functioning as assessed by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and individuals' reports of marital distress on the Marital Satisfaction Inventory (MSI). Both the MMPI and MSI were administered to a total sample of 90 couples with 30 couples from each of three sources: couples in marital therapy, couples in which one partner was psychiatrically hospitalized or in individual outpatient psychotherapy, and nonclinic couples from the general population. Replicated scale-by-scale correlations between the two instruments generally indicated a positive but modest association between individuals' scores on the MMPI and self-reported marital distress. Both bivariate and multiple regression analyses employing either individual scales or conjoint configural analyses of couples' MMPI profiles consistently identified scale 4, Psychopathic deviance (Pd), as the best predictor of relationship distress across a broad spectrum of marital functioning. However, both individual MMPI scales and complex configural approaches misclassified a large percentage of couples across all three samples. Clinical implications of results are discussed.
本研究考察了通过明尼苏达多相人格调查表（MMPI）评估的人格功能与个体在婚姻满意度量表（MSI）上报告的婚姻困扰之间的关系。MMPI和MSI均施测于总共90对夫妻的样本，其中30对夫妻来自三个来源中的每一个：接受婚姻治疗的夫妻、一方因精神疾病住院或接受个体门诊心理治疗的夫妻，以及来自普通人群的非临床夫妻。两种工具之间逐量表的重复相关性一般表明，个体在MMPI上的得分与自我报告的婚姻困扰之间存在正向但适度的关联。使用个体量表或夫妻MMPI剖面图的联合构型分析进行的双变量和多元回归分析一致确定，量表4“精神病态偏差”（Pd）是广泛婚姻功能中关系困扰的最佳预测指标。然而，个体MMPI量表和复杂的构型方法在所有三个样本中都将很大比例的夫妻错误分类。文中讨论了研究结果的临床意义。
