Department of Psychological Science, Ball State University.
Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center.
J Pers Assess. 2020 Jan-Feb;102(1):36-44. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2018.1514311. Epub 2018 Oct 31.
Previous empirical studies have established that poor mental and physical health often cooccur. However, positive health behaviors and outcomes have been demonstrated to buffer against psychological dysfunction. Thus, the ability to assess for positive health behaviors and outcomes with instruments commonly used in practice, such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF), is important. However, no study has examined the ability of MMPI-2-RF somatic scale scores to predict positive health behaviors among a healthy population. As such, in this study, we conducted correlational analyses and difference tests with 406 undergraduate students from a Midwestern university to examine whether scores on MMPI-2-RF scales assessing somatic complaints were meaningfully related to measures of health behaviors and outcomes. Results indicated high scores on the Restructured Clinical Somatic Complaints (RC1) scale and associated Specific Problems (SP) scales were meaningfully related to symptom reporting and energy level, and the SP Malaise (MLS) scale was also related to sleep quality and exercise. Additionally, low scores on RC1 and MLS were related to lack of somatic complaints and good sleep quality respectively. Overall, these findings suggest that low scores on MMPI-2-RF scales might be useful for predicting specific resilient health behaviors.
先前的实证研究已经证实，不良的身心健康往往同时存在。然而，积极的健康行为和结果已被证明可以缓冲心理功能障碍。因此，能够使用实践中常用的工具（例如明尼苏达多相人格测验-2 修订版（MMPI-2-RF））评估积极的健康行为和结果非常重要。然而，尚无研究探讨 MMPI-2-RF 躯体量表得分是否可以预测健康人群中的积极健康行为。因此，在这项研究中，我们对来自中西部一所大学的 406 名本科生进行了相关分析和差异检验，以检验评估躯体抱怨的 MMPI-2-RF 量表的得分与健康行为和结果的衡量标准之间是否存在有意义的关系。结果表明，RC1 量表和相关的特定问题 (SP) 量表上的高分与症状报告和精力水平有明显的关系，而 SP 不适 (MLS) 量表也与睡眠质量和运动有关。此外，RC1 和 MLS 得分低分别与无躯体抱怨和良好的睡眠质量有关。总体而言，这些发现表明，MMPI-2-RF 量表上的低分可能有助于预测特定的健康弹性行为。
