MMPI Scales for measuring Eysenck's Personality Factors

Gentry, Thomas A.; Wakefield, James A.; Friedman, Alan F.

doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa4902_7

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“…In psychosomatic research Eysenck's neuroticism dimension has proved to be the most useful personality scale, resulting in attempts being made to identify Eysenck's dimension in other personality scales such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) [27, 28]. In both attempts, the anxiety-related items clearly outperformed the depression-related items in the Eysenck neuroticism concept.…”

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Eysenck’s Two Big Personality Factors and Their Relationship to Depression in Patients with Chronic Idiopathic Pain Disorder: A Clinimetric Validation Analysis

2012

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Aim. The clinimetric aspects of Eysenck's two big personality factors (neuroticism and extraversion) were originally identified by principal component analysis but have been insufficiently analysed with item response theory models. Their relationship to states of melancholia and anxiety was subsequently analysed. Method. Patients with chronic idiopathic pain disorder were included in the study. The nonparametric item response model (Mokken) was compared to the coefficient alpha to validate the anxiety and depression subscales within the neuroticism scale and the extraversion and introversion subscales within the extraversion scale. When measuring states of depression and anxiety, the Melancholia Scale and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale were used. Results. We identified acceptable subscales of anxiety and depression in the Eysenck factor of neuroticism and extraversion versus introversion subscales within the Eysenck factor of extraversion. Focusing on the item of “Does your mood often go up and down?” we showed a statistically significant association with melancholia and anxiety for patients with a positive score on this item. Conclusion. Within the Eysenck factor of neuroticism it is important to differentiate between the anxiety and depression subscales. The clinimetric analysis of the Eysenck factor of extraversion identified valid subscales.

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Eysenck’s Two Big Personality Factors and Their Relationship to Depression in Patients with Chronic Idiopathic Pain Disorder: A Clinimetric Validation Analysis

2012

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“…The four Eysenckian personality factors: P, E, N, and L ) were extracted from clinical MMPI data ad modum Gentry, Wakefield, and Friedman (1985). Gentry, et al asked 92 subjects to fill out the MMPI group booklet form and also the Eysenck PENL Personality Questionnaire (EPQ).…”

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Personality as Predictor of Achievement

Hartmann

Larsen

Nyborg

2009

Journal of Individual Differences

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General intelligence, g, is a powerful predictor of education, job status and income, but the predictive power of personality is less clear. The objective of the present paper was to investigate the predictive power of personality (and g) with respect to education, job status, and income. We derived Eysenckian personality factors (P, E, N, L) from MMPI data; g was distilled from a large number of highly diverse cognitive variables. Linear, nonlinear, and interaction power in predicting socioeconomic achievement in 4200+ middle-aged American males was tested. In the present study, broad personality factors provided little incremental validity to g, in predicting socioeconomic achievement across type of education and job categories. This is at odds with previous studies, and does not exclude the possibility that certain personality factors (higher or lower order) have more predictive validity within certain job categories and education types.

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“…The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Dahlstrom, Welsh, & Dahlstrom, 1972) is an empirically developed and validated, 566-item measure of clinical and subclinical disposition to psychopathology. For our purposes, the primary MMPI scales of interest were the Psychopathic Deviate and Depression clinical scales and the Psychoticism scale developed by Gentry and Wakefield (1985) to measure Eysenck's psychoticism (antisocial and tough-minded) construct. The NEO-Personality Inventory (NEO-PI; Costa & McCrae, 1985) is a well-validated, 181-item instrument that provides a concise measure of major dimensions of adult personality—neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.…”

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Effects of monetary contingencies on smoking relapse: Influences of trait depression, personality, and habitual nicotine intake.

Gilbert¹,

Crauthers²,

Mooney³

et al. 1999

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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Of 56 male smokers, 34 were randomly assigned (by 60% random odds) to quit smoking immediately, whereas the remaining 22 were assigned to quit after an additional 31 days. Compensation ($300) was contingent on abstinence for a minimum of 31 or 2 days (depending on random assignment) and completion of all experimental sessions. Contingencies for the immediate-quit group required 31 days of abstinence; those for the delayed-quit group required only 2 days of abstinence. Contingency duration (31 vs. 2 days) predicted days to relapse. All but 4 of the 31-day contingency participants maintained abstinence for at least 31 days, whereas only 3 of the 2-day contingency group abstained for 31+ days. However, 31-day contingencies did not result in longer postcontingency time to relapse. Higher trait neuroticism, depression, and psychopathic deviate scores predicted decreased time to relapse. Prequit cotinine concentrations and Fagerström Tolerance Questionnaire scores failed to predict time to relapse.

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MMPI Scales for measuring Eysenck's Personality Factors

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Eysenck’s Two Big Personality Factors and Their Relationship to Depression in Patients with Chronic Idiopathic Pain Disorder: A Clinimetric Validation Analysis

Eysenck’s Two Big Personality Factors and Their Relationship to Depression in Patients with Chronic Idiopathic Pain Disorder: A Clinimetric Validation Analysis

Personality as Predictor of Achievement

Effects of monetary contingencies on smoking relapse: Influences of trait depression, personality, and habitual nicotine intake.

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