Previous research has suggested that except for paranoid schizophrenics, similarity in diagnostic category has little effect on sociometric choice among patients. A sociometric study was conducted employing MMPI scales as well as diagnostic categories on 84 hospitalized psychiatric patients. When diagnostic labels from the patients' charts were used, results showed no relationship between socio...

BACKGROUND Seligman's theory of causal attribution predicts that patients with a pessimistic explanatory style will have less favorable health outcomes. We investigated this hypothesis using self-reported hip pain and hip function 2- years after total hip arthroplasty (THA). METHODS Most THA patients had completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) during their usual clini...

Introduction: The clinical rotation is a stage of medical education that provides stressful environment for students. Psychological distress in students affects the learning output and achievement competencies. MMPI-2 screening tool mental disorders student admission protocols. Nevertheless, domain predicting psychological during has not been considered before. aim study to determine as predict...

In this study, we examined whether the 5 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008/2011) Suicidal/Death Ideation (SUI) items (93, 120, 164, 251, and 334) would provide incremental suicide-risk assessment information after accounting for information garnered from clinical interview questions. Among 229 forensic inpatients (146 men, 83...

Several Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) scales and facets showed small to medium levels of predictive validity in identifying law enforcement officer applicants who would later be forced to leave their agencies (n = 436 still employed, n = 164 forced to leave agency). The PSY-5 measures were moderately to strongly associated with measures o...