Spirituality and the MMPI-2  Douglas A. MacDonald University of Detroit Mercy  Daniel Holland University of Arkansas at Little Rock The present investigation was an exploratory examination of the relation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2; Butcher, Dahl- strom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) Clinical scales to spirituality operationalized in terms of self-reported religious involvement and scores on a multidimensional measure called the Expressions of Spirituality Inven- tory (ESI; MacDonald, 1997, 2000). MANOVA and correlational results indicate that the MMPI-2 Clinical scales generate patterns of findings con- sistent with available research on spirituality and health. In particular, per- sons reporting involvement in organized religion obtained significantly lower MMPI-2 Clinical scale scores and were found to be less likely to obtain a clinically significant score (i.e., t-scores 64) on any of the MMPI-2 scales. Further, with the exception of Masculine-Feminine and Hypomania, all MMPI-2 scales were found to associate appreciably with ESI dimension scores. The study concludes with a brief discussion of the meaning and implications of the findings for future research aimed at investigating the relation of spirituality to health. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 59: 399–410, 2003. Keywords: spirituality; psychopathology; psychometric; MMPI-2 In recent years, spirituality has been gaining recognition as a legitimate and important aspect of human functioning which demonstrates a reliable relation to health and well- being (e.g., Gartner, 1996; George, Larson, Koenig, & McCullough, 2000; Richards & Bergin, 1997; Seybold & Hill, 2001). Nevertheless, and despite the growing body of The authors would like to thank Dr. Cornelius J. Holland, Dr. Catherine Tsagarakis, and Dr. Jeffrey Kuentzel as well as the anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions and Bob Dario, Joel Gagnier, Kris Gene, and Andrew Taylor for their assistance during data collection. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to: D.A. MacDonald, Department of Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy, 8200 West Outer Drive, Detroit, MI 48219–0900; e-mail: macdonda@udmercy.edu. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 59(4), 399–410 (2003) © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/jclp.10047