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Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
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Use Of The MMPI And Its Derived Scales With Sex Offenders

I. Reliability and Validity Studies

Ron Langevin, PhD

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada

Percy Wright, MA

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada

Lorraine Handy

Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada

A number of MMPI derived scales were examined for their utility in the clinical assessment of sex offenders and for their ability to discriminate sex offenders from controls. The MMPIs from a total of 479 men were scored for scales measuring sexual behavior and deviance, substance abuse, personality, violence, suicide-proneness, defensiveness and brain damage. Each scale was examined for its internal consistency, using Cronbach's Alpha. Of the 125 scales examined, 70% had alphas greater than 0.60 and 80% discriminated sex offenders from controls at a better than chance level. Most scales were free of bias from age, education, IQ, and the MMPI L, F, and K Scales. The MMPI and its derived scales appear to be useful in screening of sex offenders and in evaluating their other problems which play a major role in their crimes.

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, Vol. 3, No. 3, 245-291 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/107906329000300301
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