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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2008 Dec;20(4):327–340. doi: 10.1037/a0012948

Table 3.

Internal Consistency of the RCSs, CSs, and PK Scale

MMPI-2 Scale Coefficient Alpha
Mean Inter-item Corr.
RCSs CSs RCSs CSs
D (24) .94 .39
1 (27/32) .90 .91 .24 .23
2 (17/57) .85 .82 .24 .08
3 (15/60) .85 .71 .27 .04
4 (22/50) .81 .77 .16 .06
5 (56) .46 .02
6 (17/40) .81 .69 .19 .06
7 (24/48) .90 .94 .27 .24
8 (18/78) .84 .94 .23 .15
9 (28/46) .80 .63 .13 .04
0 (69) .90 .11
PK (46) .75 .06

Note. The numbers in parentheses in the first column reflect the number of items on each RCS followed by the number of items on the corresponding CS. RCS = Restructured Clinical Scale; CS = Clinical Scale; PK = Keane PTSD; MMPI-2 = Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2; Corr = correlation; D = demoralization.