Resource Tag: MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY

Multivariate procedures were used to determine whether psychiatric patients who had made a suicide attempt immediately prior to hospitalization (n=161) could be differentiated from nonsuicidal psychiatric patients (n=161). Multivariate analysis of variance & cluster analysis failed to identify differences in the MMPI data of suicidal & nonsuicidal patients. In contrast, discriminant analysis produced a modest […]

Describes the treatment of a neurotically depressed 36 year old white, widowed male, hospitalized following a suicide attempt, using a combination of 4 behavior modification techniques: Wolpe`s relaxation & desensitization, & assertive training techniques: Premack`s differential probability hypothesis: & Lazarus` behavioral deprivation & retraining. “At the end of 8 hourly sessions, the patient showed dramatic […]

Mean scores of different clinical groups are not comparable on the Ego Resiliency Scale. Persons with narcissistic pathology score high on this scale in an attempt to create a favorable social image.

The MMPI profiles of 40 suicidal & 40 non-suicidal male and female depressed patients, matched for age, were compared. Differences between MMPI scale T scores which showed some sex specificity were found between the suicidal & non-suicidal depressives. However neither individual scale T scores, derived discriminant functions, nor actuarial or cluster analysis-derived MMPI profiles could […]

Study of the psychological variables that differentiate persons who have attempted suicide from those who have not, within a sample of clinically depressed female patients. The following scales and inventories were utilized: the Wittenborn Psychiatric Rating Scale, the Self Rating Depression Scale, part of the MMPI, the WAIS Information and Digit Symbol Subtests, the DAT […]

Study to determine whether there were similarities or differences between groups of highly suicidal individuals with regard to their MMPI profiles and scale scores. In addition, these groups were compared with comparison groups of nonsuicidal depressed individuals. Leonard’s classification of personality type was used as a comparison variable, plus age, sex, marital status and number […]

This article examined the MMPI protocols of 52 15-81 yr. old white males who had completed suicide. Older subjects showed significantly more response conformity, less denial of personal inadequacies, a tendency to use physical symptoms as a means of resolving conflicts less, & a greater tendency for paranoia. Results are compared with those obtained in […]

Study to develop and evaluate an effective method of determining suicidal risk. Rating scales were used to differentiate low and medium risk groups and these groups were compared with each other on three personality instruments. (KB)

Study attempting to determine how accurately suicides among a psychiatric population can be identified in advance by analysing the records of patients seen at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Center. The MMPI ratings and clinical predictions for the committed suicides and a control group are compared. (KB)

Completed suicides in a state hospital were contrasted with natural deaths & inpatients. No significant differences were found on patterns of admission complaints; depression was found to be the most frequent admission complaint. Neither MMPI profiles nor a recently developed suicide threat scale served to discriminate suicides from comparison groups. Highly significant differences were found […]

Study to determine whether a phencyclidine abusing population will score more closely to a clinically depressed/suicidal population than a heroin abusing population on the MMPI Scale 2/Depression and whether the phencyclidine abusing population will report a greater degree of indirect self destructive behavior. (KB)

Study to determine whether or not it is possible to differentiate neuropsychiatric non-suicidal male patients from neuropsychiatric suicidal male patients using the MMPI and a Suicide Potential Personality Inventory. (KB)

Study using an outpatient population of committed suicides who were interviewed and tested at the Suicide Prevention Centre in Los Angeles during a prior suicidal crisis. This group was compared with an outpatient group of threatened suicides and a group of non-suicidal crisis patients on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and on case file data. […]

73 inpatients completed Beck’s Suicide Ideator Scale, Beck’s Hopelessness Scale and the MMPI Depression Scale. As hypothesized, suicide intent was significantly more correlated with hopelessness than with depression. When the effect of hopelessness was removed statistically, there was no relationship between suicide intent and depression.

Twenty male depressives who had made a previous suicide attempt and twenty male non-suicidal depressives, all in-patients, were compared with regard to the types of responses which they gave to projective cards having hostile, depressive and ambiguous stimulus values. In addtion five subscales of the MMPI, one subscale from the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and […]

MMPI responses of a group of suicidal & nonsuicidal subjects were investigated for differences holding diagnosis, education, occupation, marital status, age & number of VA hospital admissions constant in both groups. A significant number of items differentiated suicidal from nonsuicidal subjects. This number was three times the number of items which differentiated the two groups […]

The MMPI profiles of 20 male psychiatric patients who committed suicide & 20 who did not attempt or complete suicide were presented to 6 clinical psychologists with expertise in MMPI interpretations. Data analysis revealed that the clinicians could not distinguish suicide from nonsuicide from the profiles. Furthermore, the 8 variables identified by the clinicians as […]