Psychological evaluations of clergy applicants to the Catholic Church are an important gatekeeping mechanism during the admission process. However, limited research exists on the validity of assessments for this evaluative purpose and none have examined the predictive utility of the MMPI-2-RF to determine if an applicant will be accepted to formation, or if they ultimately ordained. This study fills that gap in the literature by investigating the predictive validity of MMPI-2-RF scales in 147 male applicants evaluated as part of their application for seminary or diaconate formation programs in a mid-sized Catholic diocese in the United States. Group analyses (e.g., Kruskal-Wallis tests) with admission status as the independent variable and MMPI-2-RF scales as the dependent variables yielded significant differences, most notably, those participants not admitted had higher mean scores on F-r, Fp-r, EID, RC7, THD, RC8, RC1, MLS, NUC, and JCP than the other three groups. Relative risk ratios were estimated for all MMPI-2-RF scales, indicating that higher scores are generally associated with a lower likelihood of admission and, ultimately, ordination. Limitations and future directions of research are also discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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使用MMPI-2-RF检查天主教神职人员的录取和编组结果：一项前瞻性研究。

对天主教神职人员的心理评估是录取过程中的重要守门机制。但是，对于用于此评估目的评估的有效性，研究有限，没有人检查MMPI-2-RF的预测效用，以确定申请人是否会被接受或最终受命。这项研究通过调查MMPI-2-RF量表在147个男性申请人中的预测有效性来填补文献中的空白，该男性申请人是在美国中型天主教主教管区申请神学院或重婚夫形成计划的一部分而进行评估的。分组分析（例如，Kruskal-Wallis检验）以入场状态作为自变量，以MMPI-2-RF标度作为因变量产生了显着差异，最显着的是，那些未被录取的参与者在Fr，Fp-r，EID，RC7，THD，RC8，RC1，MLS，NUC和JCP上的平均得分高于其他三组。对所有MMPI-2-RF量表的相对风险比进行了估计，这表明较高的分数通常与入院和最终排序的可能性较低有关。还讨论了局限性和未来的研究方向。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。