Citation

McDevitt-Murphy ME, Weathers FW, Flood AM, Eakin DE, Benson TA. Assessment 2007; 14(2): 181-195.

Affiliation

Auburn University, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1073191106295914

PMID

17504890

Abstract

This study investigated the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Revised (MMPI-2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) with regard to each instrument's utility for discriminating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from depression and social phobia in a sample of college students with mixed civilian trauma exposure. Participants were 90 trauma-exposed undergraduates (16 male, 74 female) classified into one of four groups: PTSD, depressive disorders, social phobia, and well-adjusted. For both the PAI and the MMPI-2, profile analysis revealed that the groups differed in the elevation and shape of their profiles. The PAI Traumatic Stress subscale demonstrated good discriminant validity.

Language: en