Male patients complaining of impotence (N=32) were administered the Male Impotence Test (MIT) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The results suggested that the MIT is without value for differentiating between psychogenic and biogenic impotence, whereas two rules from the MMPI appropriately classified 90 percent of the…

Present findings can be integrated with previous work by indicating that the A therapists were concerned with other people, feelings, and possible new ways of looking at things, whereas the Bs are more concerned with established facts and objects in the external world. (Author)

The MMPI was administered to 30 male counselors prior to admission to training and again at the completion of training. The counselors on alcoholism in the present study scored significantly higher than male counselor trainees on the MMPI L, Pd, and Ma scales in the pretraining and completion of training. (Author)

The use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory as a psychodiagnostic measure for homosexuality and psychopathology is reviewed and discussed. The MMPI was administered to samples of non-patient homosexuals and heterosexuals enrolled in college. Results are discussed. (Author)

The utility of employing elevated scores on the Depression and Psychasthenia scales of the MMPI as an indicator of a genuine, enduring clinical problem was investigated for a male college student population. Pilot data suggest that MMPI scale scores decrease following psychotherapy but not with the passage of time alone. (Author)

The validity of the MMPI Psychopathic Deviate (Pd) and Pd+.4K scales to discriminate levels of social deviance among young black male prisoners was investigated in three studies. It was concluded that Pd and Pd+.4K both validly differentiate levels of social deviance but that the norms for the scales appear to show racial bias. (Author)

In the late 1960s researchers noted signs of increased emotional impairment among college students. In 1974 Yankelovich reported indications of major reversals in the campus atmosphere suggesting a lessening of personal difficulties. Annual MMPI profiles of college males for 1965 to 1973 suggested changes in adjustment patterns supporting…

This study compared the MMPI profiles of law offenders (N=362) at different ages to examine personality changes associated with aging and to assess certain clinically derived impressions about patterns of personality disturbance in older vs. younger offenders. The greater the age difference between groups, the larger were the personality…

This research sought to determine what personality characteristics are associated with prejudice toward women, and given the reality of such characteristics, what is the functional, personal value of this prejudice. This paper reports on the results of a series of correlational studies intended to answer these questions using a variety of…