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ASSESSMENT
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 181-195Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1073191106295914
Keywords
posttraumatic stress disorder; psychological assessment; Personality Assessment Inventory; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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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 posttraumatic 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.
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