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PREDICTING TREATMENT OUTCOMES AMONG LOW BACK PAIN PATIENTS USING THE MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY-2-RESTRUCTURED FORM

Tarescavage, Anthony Michael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1447070671

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2015, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the reliability, concurrent validity, and criterion validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008/2011) scores in a sample of 811 chronic low back pain patients (346 males, 529 females) beginning treatment in a short-term interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program. We calculated internal consistency coefficients, mean-item correlations, and standard errors of measurement for all substantive scales, as well as zero-order correlations with collateral medical record information and self-report testing. For criterion validity analyses, we examined associations with emotional distress and pain disability outcomes. Results indicated reliability and validity for most of the MMPI-2-RF substantive scales. Descriptive analyses across diagnostic groups indicated that the MMPI-2-RF Restructured Clinical Scales had substantially improved discriminant validity when compared to the MMPI-2 Clinical Scales. Higher scale scores from all the MMPI-2-RF substantive domains were associated with worse emotional distress outcomes, with measures of negative emotionality demonstrating the strongest associations with poorer post-treatment functioning. Consistent with the bio-psychosocial model of pain, higher scores on scales from the Emotional/Internalizing, Thought Dysfunction, and Interpersonal domains were associated with worse pain disability outcomes. Implications of these findings and limitations of this study are discussed.
Yossef Ben-Porath, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Manfred van Dulmen, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Susan Roxburgh, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Gunstad, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Ann Jacobson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
129 p.
Psychology
MMPI-2-RF; Chronic Pain; Back Pain; Treatment Outcome; Applied Assessment

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  • Tarescavage, A. M. (2015). PREDICTING TREATMENT OUTCOMES AMONG LOW BACK PAIN PATIENTS USING THE MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY-2-RESTRUCTURED FORM [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1447070671

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tarescavage, Anthony. PREDICTING TREATMENT OUTCOMES AMONG LOW BACK PAIN PATIENTS USING THE MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY-2-RESTRUCTURED FORM. 2015. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1447070671.

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  • Tarescavage, Anthony. "PREDICTING TREATMENT OUTCOMES AMONG LOW BACK PAIN PATIENTS USING THE MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY-2-RESTRUCTURED FORM." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1447070671

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