FACTOR-ANALYSIS OF MMPI-2 BASIC SCALES AMONG COLLEGE-STUDENTS

The MMPI-2 was administered to 288 college students (178 women and 110 men) between the ages of 18 and 34 years. Scores on the basic 13 (thr ee validity and ten clinical) scales were correlated and subjected to principal component analyses separately for men and women. In each cas e, four factors were retained and subjected to varimax rotation. Coeff icients of congruence were calculated for all possible pairs of factor s across two samples of college students and the normative adults, sep arately for men and women, and across genders within each sample. Resu lts indicated that the factorial structure of the MMPI-2 basic scales seemed to possess considerable uniformity across samples and genders, but not without some notable exceptions.