Faculty Articles
Relations between Coercive Strategies and MMPI-2 Scale Elevations among Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Traumatic Stress
ISSN
0894-9867
Publication Date
1-2000
Abstract
The relationship between coercion strategies used by perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and elevations of CSA survivors on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) was investigated. Participants were 151 women survivors of CSA in outpatient treatment at a university-based community mental health center. Scores on the MMPI-2 clinical scales and the Keane posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) scale were examined. Main effects were found for promised or received rewards on several clinical scales and the PTSD scale of the MMPI-2, independent of the presence of force. Specifically, the presence of such rewards was associated with significantly higher levels of symptomatology on Paranoia (Pa), Psychasthenia (Pt), Schizophrenia (Sc), and PTSD (Pk). There were no main or interaction effects noted for the presence of actual or threatened force on any of the scales.
DOI
10.1023/A:1007785201112
Volume
13
Issue
1
First Page
169
Last Page
177
NSUWorks Citation
Lucenko, B. A.,
Gold, S. N.,
Elhai, J. D.,
Russo, S. A.,
Swingle, J. M.
(2000). Relations between Coercive Strategies and MMPI-2 Scale Elevations among Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 13(1), 169-177.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/498
