The utility of employing elevated scores on the Depression and Psychasthenia scales of the MMPI as an indicator of a genuine, enduring clinical problem was investigated for a male college student population. Pilot data suggest that MMPI scale scores decrease following psychotherapy but not with the passage of time alone. (Author)

Studied the efficacy of induced affect as a pregroup training experience for coping with stress related to participation in an encounter group. Results indicated that group participants who did not receive the induced-affect pregroup training demonstrated significant increases on the Neuroticism scale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. (Author)

This study investigated objections to Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) items by black and white males and females classified as high or low trust by Rotter's Interpersonal Trust Scale. Low-trust subjects objected to more items than high-trust subjects. Race and sex did not influence number of items objected to. (Author)