Answer: The scale on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality-2 (MMPI-2) that is designed to assess the extent to which individuals are responding to the items in a manner designed to present themselves in a socially desirable manner is the <u>MMPI- Validity Scale Development: K scale or correction scale
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Explanation:
1) Designed to detect clients who are describing themselves in overly positive terms, similar to L. However the K scale is more subtle and effective. Some with high K scores is unlikely to have significant elevations in L scale. K is more a measure of defensiveness. Because defensiveness may suppress clinical scales,
a K correction is added to 5 of the clinical scales (1, 4, 7, 8, 9) to compensate for this defensiveness.
2) H K ( T=65 or 70)
3) Describes self in an overly favorable light, denying difficulties
