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The Appropriateness of the MMPI-2 K Correction

John R. Graham

jgraham{at}kent.edu.

Yossef S. Ben-Porath

Kent State University

Auke Tellegen

University of Minnesota

John L. Mcnulty

University of Tulsa

The extent to which the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 (MMPI-2) K scale serves as a suppressor variable that influences the validity of clinical scale scores was examined using 274 male and 425 female outpatients from a community mental health center and 105 male and 247 female clients from a university psychological clinic. Hierarchical regression analyses were performed with MMPI-2 K scale scores and clinical scale scores as predictors and therapist ratings as criteria. In most cases, the K scale did not act as a suppressor. Optimal K weights were different from the traditional K corrections. In most instances, there were no significant differences between correlations of therapist ratings with K-corrected and uncorrected clinical scale scores. The results do not support the Kscale as a suppressor variable in these settings, although additional research is needed in settings where higher levels of defensiveness are common.

Key Words: MMPI-2 • K correction • suppressor • defensiveness

Assessment, Vol. 9, No. 3, 219-229 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191102009003001


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