A comparison was made of MMPI data for 100 Negro and 100 white patients in a Veterans Administration mental hygiene clinic. The 2 groups were similar in all respects investigated including educational level, but the Negroes were at a significantly lower occupational level. The mean profiles for the 2 groups were similar. Ordering the MMPIs by the highest and 2 highest clinical scale scores show...

To test the hypothesis that low iron status or other nutritional deficiencies are associated with symptoms of depression in premenopausal women, the authors related blood indices of iron status to scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and responses to a mood adjective checklist. Participants recruited locally provided fasting blood samples and completed the MMPI durin...

Students attending a state-supported residential academy for academically gifted adolescents (N = 139) completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents (MMPI-A; Butcher et al., 1992) upon entrance to document their psychological characteristics. The same students completed a postadministration of the MMPI-A at the end of their 2nd year at the school. Results indicated t...

INTRODUCTION The main objective of the present study is to review the psychological profile of female patients with borderline personality disorder in the women referring to the Centers of Counseling and Psychological Services at Isfahan city based on MMPI-2 test and comparing them with ordinary women. METHOD The present study is of the type of cause-comparative and the selection of examinees...

Problem description: Our research concerns psychometric diagnoses basing on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test [1, 3, 4]. The goal of MMPI test is to count the personality–psychometric dimensions which help in differential diagnosis of given person and to assess psychotherapy results. Finally given person should be assigned to one (or two if given case is placed on a bo...

An empirical typology of problem drinker-drivers based on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was evaluated. Relationships were demonstrated between this typology and several kinds of external criteria: alcoholism symptoms, reasons for drinking, treatment participation and outcome and medical complications. Indicators of typological validity were further evaluated in the cont...

Extensive research has been conducted on the use of the MMPI and MMPI-2 scales in forensic settings to assess criminals in pre-trial and in-prison evaluations (see Reference File for more complete listing). The following highlights describe special contributions that were made to assure that the scales on the test were appropriate, reliable, and valid in predicting behavior of criminal populati...

New organic stilbazolium family of 4-[2-(3 methoxy-phenyl)-vinyl]-1-methyl-pyridinium+ iodide− (MMPI) was successfully synthesized using the condensation reaction method. The recrystallization process carried out to improve purity material, and MMPI grown into a single crystal by solvent evaporation solubility material taken at different temperatures with mixture Methanol: Acetonitrile (1:1). s...

Elements of response style were examined among three groups of chronic, psychotic, forensic patients: paranoid schizophrenics (N = 89); undifferentiated-disorganized schizophrenics (N = 38); and schizoaffective patients (N = 53). Forensic patients with elevated MMPI-2 L Scales produced increased percentages of Pure Form (F%) on the Rorschach. A similar relationship occurred when the Rorschach w...