Childhood Cancer: Parental Discord and Divorce

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley B. Lansky ◽  
Nancy U. Cairns ◽  
Ruth Hassanein ◽  
Jean Wehr ◽  
James T. Lowman
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Divorce Rate ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Marital Stress ◽  
High Divorce Rate ◽  
Indicator Analysis

Parents of 191 children who were treated for cancer over a seven-year period completed and returned a questionnaire concerning marital status. Contrary to the prediction of a high divorce rate among these families, the study found a person-year divorce rate of 1.19%. This is slightly lower than the 2.03% person-year divorce rate among married couples with children in the states of Kansas and Missouri. The Arnold sign indicator analysis of the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory was used to measure marital stress in 38 intact couples whose children were treated for cancer. The study sample experienced more stress than a comparison group of 23 couples who had hemophilic children. Both of these populations had more stress than a normal standardization group but less than a standardization group of marriage counselees.

MMPI-2 in Child Custody Litigation

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Roma ◽  
Federica Ricci ◽  
Georgios D. Kotzalidis ◽  
Luigi Abbate ◽  
Anna Lubrano Lavadera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Custody Evaluations ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
Child Custody Evaluations ◽  
Italian Women

In recent years, several studies have addressed the issue of positive self-presentation bias in assessing parents involved in postdivorce child custody litigations. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is widely used in forensic assessments and is able to evaluate positive self-presentation through its Superlative Self-Presentation S scale. We investigated the existence of a gender effect on positive self-presentation bias in an Italian sample of parents involved in court evaluation. Participants were 391 divorced parents who completed the full 567-item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 during child custody evaluations ordered by several Italian courts between 2006 and 2010. Our analysis considered the S scale along with the basic clinical scales. North-American studies had shown no gender differences in child custody litigations. Differently, our results showed a significantly higher tendency toward “faking-good” profiles on the MMPI-2 among Italian women as compared to men and as compared to the normative Italian female population. Cultural and social factors could account for these differences.

Classification accuracy of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)-Restructured form validity scales in detecting malingered pain-related disability.

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 857-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Bianchini ◽  
Luis E. Aguerrevere ◽  
Kelly L. Curtis ◽  
Tresa M. Roebuck-Spencer ◽  
F. Charles Frey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Validity Scales

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form in the epilepsy monitoring unit

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dona E.C. Locke ◽  
Kristin A. Kirlin ◽  
Michael L. Thomas ◽  
David Osborne ◽  
Duane F. Hurst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Epilepsy Monitoring
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