Tarescavage Anthony M, Corey David M, Ben-Porath Yossef S
Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
Corey & Stewart, Portland, OR, USA.
Assessment. 2015 Feb;22(1):116-32. doi: 10.1177/1073191114534885. Epub 2014 May 28.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) in a sample of law enforcement officers. MMPI-2-RF scores were collected from preemployment psychological evaluations of 136 male police officers, and supervisor ratings of performance and problem behavior were subsequently obtained during the initial probationary period. The sample produced meaningfully lower and less variant substantive scale scores than the general population and the MMPI-2-RF Police Candidate comparison group, which significantly affected effect sizes for the zero-order correlations. After applying a correction for range restriction, MMPI-2-RF substantive scales demonstrated moderate to strong associations with criteria, particularly in the Emotional Dysfunction and Interpersonal Functioning domains. Relative risk ratio analyses showed that cutoffs of 45T and 50T maintained reasonable selection ratios because of the exceptionally low scores in this sample and were associated with significantly increased risk for problematic behavior. These results provide support for the predictive validity of the MMPI-2-RF substantive scales in this setting. Implications of these findings and limitations of these results are discussed.
本研究的目的是在执法人员样本中调查明尼苏达多相人格问卷第二版修订版（MMPI-2-RF）的预测效度。从136名男性警官的入职前心理评估中收集了MMPI-2-RF分数，随后在初始试用期内获得了上级对其工作表现和问题行为的评分。与普通人群和MMPI-2-RF警察候选人比较组相比，该样本产生的实质性量表分数显著更低且变异更小，这对零阶相关性的效应大小产生了显著影响。在应用范围限制校正后，MMPI-2-RF实质性量表与标准显示出中度至强的关联，特别是在情绪功能障碍和人际功能领域。相对风险比分析表明，由于该样本中的分数异常低，45T和50T的临界值保持了合理的选择率，并且与问题行为风险的显著增加相关。这些结果为MMPI-2-RF实质性量表在该环境中的预测效度提供了支持。讨论了这些发现的意义和这些结果的局限性。
