Psychometric Properties and Predictive Validity of the Mt Scale of the MMPI-2

Lauterbach, Dean; Garcia, Mark; Gloster, Andrew T.

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“…A high score on this scale indicates a lack of adjustment in college. In the original sample it obtained an alpha of .85 (Lauterbach, Garcia, & Gloster, 2002). In the present sample this measure possessed an alpha level of .87.…”

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Because God Said so: Religious Facets of Sexual and Gender Harassment in Christian Academia

Eliason

Elizabeth

Hall

et al. 2011

Journal of Psychology and Theology

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The present study explored experiences of sexism (sexual and gender harassment) in a Christian university student population. This study assessed the frequency of sexism, documented how sexism is expressed in a Christian context, and evaluated the relationships between sexism and two outcomes, campus climate and college satisfaction. Additionally, it was hypothesized that attribution of gender harassment to the perpetrator's religious belief system would potentiate the negative effects of harassment. 187 female students completed an online questionnaire, including the Sexual Experiences Questionnaire—Short Form (SEQ), the General Campus Climate Scale (GCCS), and the MMPI-2 College Maladjustment Scale (CMS). Results indicated very low rates of sexual harassment. Also, religious attributions for gender harassment had a significantly negative relationship with the outcome variables although they did not moderate these outcomes. Qualitative descriptions of students’ experiences with gender harassment were recorded, shedding light on what gender harassing behaviors look like in Christian academia.

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Because God Said so: Religious Facets of Sexual and Gender Harassment in Christian Academia

Eliason

Elizabeth

Hall

et al. 2011

Journal of Psychology and Theology

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“…Responses are scored in the maladjustment direction, with higher scores measuring anxiety, inefficacy, pessimism, somatization, and the experience of life as a strain most of the time. The Mt scale shows acceptable internal consistency, concurrent validity with established indices of general maladjustment, and predictive validity with such criteria as grade‐point average and history of psychological treatment (Lauterbach, Garcia, & Gloster, 2002).…”

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Aspirations and wellbeing in Romanian and US undergraduates

Stevens¹,

Constantinescu²,

Butucescu³

2011

Int J Psychol

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Updating cross-cultural research of the past decade on the relationship between life aspirations and wellbeing, we compared Romanian (N ¼ 69) and US (N ¼ 64) undergraduates on the contribution of the importance and likelihood of attaining intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations to psychological maladjustment and life satisfaction, and on the qualitative meaning they assign to financial success. Similarly to prior studies, we found that extrinsic and intrinsic aspirations tended to be either negatively or positively correlated with life satisfaction, respectively; however, wealth predicted life satisfaction for Romanian students. Unlike previous research, we found generally negative relationships between intrinsic aspirations and psychological maladjustment. Although there were no differences between Romanian and US undergraduates on extrinsic and intrinsic orientation, on the overall importance of attaining aspirations, or on specific extrinsic and intrinsic aspirations, Romanian students expressed weaker expectations of fulfilling intrinsic aspirations than did US students. Finally, the groups produced similar rankings of aspirations and assigned similar meaning to financial success. The results favored a social cognitive rather than a self-determination model of psychological wellbeing in that expectations for attaining aspirations were more often predictive of life satisfaction than were their content. We interpret these findings and their convergence and departure from earlier research in terms of political economic, demographic, and cultural factors. We encourage future cross-cultural investigations of the social construction of aspirations, subsidiation of seemingly contradictory aspirations to each other, and cognitive and ecological mediation of the complex relationship of aspirations to psychological functioning.Keywords: Aspirations; Maladjustment; Wellbeing; Cross-cultural.M ettant a`jour la recherche multiculturelle de la dernie`re de´cennie portant sur la relation entre les aspirations face a`la vie et le bien-eˆtre, nous avons compare´des e´tudiants universitaires de premier cycle roumains (N ¼ 69) et e´tats-uniens (N ¼ 64) sur la contribution de l'importance et de la probabilite´d'atteindre des aspirations intrinse`ques et extrinse`ques pour l'inadaptation psychosociale et la satisfaction face a`la vie, ainsi que sur la signification qualitative qu'ils attribuent au succe`s financier. Similairement aux e´tudes ante´ce´dentes, nous avons trouve´que les aspirations extrinse`ques et intrinse`ques tendaient a`eˆtre soit ne´gativement ou positivement corre´le´es avec la satisfaction face a`la vie, respectivement; cependant, la richesse pre´disait la satisfaction face a`la vie chez les e´tudiants roumains. Contrairement aux e´tudes pre´ce´dentes, nous avons trouve´des relations ge´ne´ralement ne´gatives entre les aspirations intrinse`ques et l'inadaptation psychosociale. Quoiqu'il n'y ait pas de diffe´rence entre les e´tudiants roumains et e´tats-uniens en regard de l'orientation extrinse`que et intrinse`qu...

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“…For example, Wilderman (1984) and Stewart (1994) examined mean differences between groups of maladjusted and adjusted college students. Other studies examined classification accuracy rates to establish cut-off scores on the Mt scale to classify students into maladjusted and adjusted groups (Kuczka & Handal, 1990;Lauterbach, Garcia, & Gloster, 2002;Svanum & Ehrmann, 1993). All of the past concurrent validity studies support the conclusion that the Mt scale discriminates among groups of adjusted and maladjusted college students.…”

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Construct Validity of the MMPI-2 College Maladjustment (Mt) Scale

Barthlow¹,

Graham

Ben‐Porath

et al. 2004

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The construct validity of the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2) College Maladjustment (Mt) Scale was examined using 376 student clients at a university psychological clinic. A principal components analysis and correlations of Mt scale scores with clients' and therapists' ratings of symptoms and functioning showed that the Mt scale identifies the presence of maladjustment as defined in terms of depressive and anxious symptoms. There is no evidence to show that the scale is specific to college students or that it is sensitive to severe psychological disturbance. The Mt scale does not inform the clinician as to why a person is distressed. In addition, there is no evidence from this study to suggest the superiority of the Mt scale over other MMPI-2 maladjustment measures. Therapists should use the entire MMPI-2 profile, not just the Mt scale, to gain the most comprehensive and specific understanding of clients.

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Psychometric Properties and Predictive Validity of the Mt Scale of the MMPI-2

Cited by 4 publications

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Because God Said so: Religious Facets of Sexual and Gender Harassment in Christian Academia

Because God Said so: Religious Facets of Sexual and Gender Harassment in Christian Academia

Aspirations and wellbeing in Romanian and US undergraduates

Construct Validity of the MMPI-2 College Maladjustment (Mt) Scale

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