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This study intended to differentiate among worker's compensation claimants with psychological problems who presented with work-related harassment and non-harassment complaints on the basis of their MMPI-2 profiles. Analysis of MMPI-2 mean scores revealed that the Harassment group scored significantly higher than the Non-harassment group on scale 6 of the MMPI-2. This was interpreted to mean that the Harassment group was more oversensitive, suspicious, and angry than the other group. There was no evidence that the Harassment group was more likely to exaggerate or malinger than the Non-harassment group. The profile pattern for both groups was otherwise very similar to those found in previous studies that have used MMPI worker's compensation claimants who present with psychological problems.

The purpose of the present research was to interrelate dimensions of anxiety in a psychiatric population, based primarily on the conceptual formulation of Templer, Corgiat, and Brooner (1984). Two hundred twenty outpatients served as subjects. The Fear Survey Schedule, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Hamilton Anxiety Scale, and a Likert-formated criterial symptom checklist for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) were employed to derive measures of Severity, Stimulus Specificity, Subjective Component (Cognitive vs. Somatic), Chronicity, and Temporal Constancy (Sometimes vs. Always present). Principal components factor analysis yielded three distinct dimensions of anxiety: Morbidity, Subjective Component, and Chronicity. Clinical and theoretical relevance of these findings are discussed specific to construction of a working model of anxiety, clinical assessment of anxiety response systems, and the feasibility of a dimensional approach to understanding psychopathology.