Correlations between the Child Abuse Potential Inventory and the MMPI-2-RF in a sample of court-referred parents
- WCU Author/Contributor (non-WCU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Brittni Valen Morgan (Creator)
- Institution
- Western Carolina University (WCU )
- Web Site: http://library.wcu.edu/
- Advisor
- David McCord
Abstract: This thesis examined the relationship between scores on the Child Abuse Potential
Inventory and scores on MMPI-2-RF Scales in a clinical setting. The issue of child abuse,
whether that is verbal abuse, emotional abuse, or physical abuse, has been the focus of a
significant amount of research in the past. Research shows that there are specific risk
factors that could increase the chances that a parent or caregiver will be an abuser. Many
tests have sought to measure the potential risk of physical child abuse, with the most
prominently used being the Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAP). The CAP provides
an accurate prediction of predispositions to child abuse in the potential abuser. As
recently as 1993, new developments in the area of personality inventory were reached
with the MMPI-2-RF. The sample included parents and caregivers who were referred for
evaluation to the Psychological and Counseling Center of Cartersville, GA and had their
children removed from the home by the Georgia Department of Family and Children
Services (DFACS). Scores on the MMPI-2-RF Scales were compared to scores on the
CAP overall Abuse scale, psychological difficulties subscales, and interactional problems
subscales. The MMPI-2-RF Higher-Order scale of Emotional Internalizing Dysfunction
(EID) proved to be a significant predictor of potential physical child abuse as measured
by the overall CAP Abuse scale. Results show significant correlations with scores on the CAP Abuse Scale and many of the higher order classifications, the restructured clincal
scales, the specific problems scales, and the personality psychopathology five scales of
the MMPI-2-RF, primarily those related to emotional distress and internalizing
difficulties.
Correlations between the Child Abuse Potential Inventory and the MMPI-2-RF in a sample of court-referred parents
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- Abuse, Child Abuse Potential Inventory, MMPI-2-RF, Personality
- Subjects
- Child abuse -- Psychological aspects
- Child Abuse Potential Inventory
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory