Seventeen men with low scores on MMPI Scales 2 and 0 showed relatively high incidences of arrest, personal injury, impulsivity, recklessness, deceitfulness, and other indicators of probable character pathology. Subjects were taken from a population of 7,153 adult males who took the MMPI as part of employment screening. Low-2-low-0 subjects were compared with a control group of 142 men randomly selected from the same population. Descriptive statistics, brief case histories, interpretive remarks, and limitations of the present data are presented.
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