The MMPI-2 test in the evaluation of the mobbing syndrome
Pappone, P.; Santalucia, L.; Del Castello, E.; De Maino, V.; Garofalo, E.; Cappelluccio, R.; Feola, D.; Ruberto, M.; Liotti, F.
Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro Ed Ergonomia 29(3 Suppl): 703-705
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 1592-7830 PMID: 18409914 Document Number: 607078
MMPI-2 test is widely used in psychodiagnostic evaluation as well as in the evaluation of psychic pathologies related to psychosocial adversative events in working activities. A more efficacious use of MMPI-2 test in the working context can be achieved by the individuation of indexes able to facilitate the evaluation of mobbing syndrome. This work is based on the analysis of 150 cases (39.7% women and 60.7% men, 30 to 60 years of age), evaluated through an accurate examination of working history and a series of clinic conversations, followed by psychodiagnostic evaluation. The average of T-scores on the clinical scale, the content scale, the PK addition scale and the validation scale were calculated from tests. Pathologic high T-scores on the scales Hs, D. Hy e Pa were found in subjects having positive mobbing anamnesis. These results strongly indicate the presence of clinical specificities in workers exposed to working harassments, and that these specificities can be efficaciously evidenced by the MMPI-2 test.