Validity Scale and Abbreviation | Interpretation of High Scores |
Validity Scale | |
Cannot say (?) | Subject is evasive or indecisive. |
Lie (L) | Subject tends to present self in idealized or overly virtuous manner. |
Frequency (F) | Subject is confused, answering randomly, or trying to fake symptoms. A high score on this scale suggests the profile is invalid. |
Correction (K) | Subject is defensive and attempting to obscure symptoms. |
Clinical Scale | |
1. Hypochondriasis (Hs) | Subject is unrealistically concerned with physical complaints. |
2. Depression (D) | Subject is unhappy, depressed, and pessimistic. |
3. Hysteria (Hy) | Subject focuses on vague physical symptoms to avoid dealing with severe psychological stress. |
4. Psychopathic deviate (Pd) | Subject's social interactions indicate emotional shallowness, rebelliousness, and disregard for law or conventional morality. |
5. Masculinity-Femininity (Mf) | Subject shows interests and behaviors usually associated with opposite sex role. |
6. Paranoia (Pa) | Subject has strong, irrational suspicions and overestimates own importance. |
7. Psychasthenia (Pt) | Subject is tense, rigid, anxious and may have obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. |
8. Schizophrenia (Sc) | Subject is withdrawn, experiences distortions of reality and dresses and acts bizarrely. |
9. Hypomania (Ma) | Subject is outgoing, impulsive overly active, and excited. |
0. Social introversion-extroversion (Si) | Subject is withdrawn, shy, inhibited, and self-effacing. |