title: Using MMPI-2-RF Correlates to Elucidate the PCL-R and Its Four Facets in a Sample of Male Forensic Psychiatric Patients.
abstract: This study documents the associations between the MMPI-2-RF (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008 ) scale scores and the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 2003 ) facet scores in a forensic psychiatric sample. Objectives were to determine how the MMPI-2-RF scales might enhance substantive understanding of the nature of the 4 PCL-R facets and to discern possible implications for the treatment of psychopathic patients. A sample of 127 male forensic psychiatric offenders admitted to a Dutch forensic psychiatric hospital completed the PCL-R and the MMPI-2. Exploratory stepwise regression analyses assessed the prediction of the PCL-R total and its facet scores from MMPI-2-RF scales at its 3 hierarchical levels. Conceptually meaningful results emerged at each level of the MMPI-2-RF hierarchy, including several consistent differences between predictor sets across the facets. Interestingly, ideas of persecution (RC6) was a specific predictor of PCL-R Facet 2, a facet noted for its association with treatment failure. Results are compared and contrasted to the extant body of empirical work to date, and some tentative clinical implications are offered.
authors.affiliation: a De Waag Nederland , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Evelyn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Klein Haneveld
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , University of Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jan H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kamphuis
authors.affiliation: c Van der Hoeven Kliniek , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wineke
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Smid
authors.affiliation: d Department of Psychological Science , Ball State University.
authors.forename: Johnathan D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Forbey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D057237:Criminals; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D055815:Young Adult