Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) of 36 patient suicides were compared with two matching control groups. Female suicides differed significantly from all male groups and from both female control groups. These differentiating patterns emerged from a population of voluntary psychiatric patients and would not necessarily be…

Compared college students with 2-7-8 profiles on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (N=39) and students scoring high on the Perceptual Aberration-Magical Ideation Scale (N=41) on symptoms thought to indicate psychosis proneness. Results indicated that the groups did not differ on the number of subjects with psychotic and…

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scores yielded significant discriminations between cancer and noncancer groups. The group with cancer was significantly separated from the noncancer group on the basis of lower scores on Byrne's Repression-Sensitization scale (greater repression) and on the Depression scale of the MMPI (less…

Compared the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory with and without the K correction for hit rate across patient (N=400) and nonpatient (N=200) groups. Results showed a total hit rate of 80.2 percent for the K correction and 78.3 percent for no K correction. (LLL)

Adult follow-up information on social outcome variables was obtained for males who had taken the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) during their junior year. Individuals with undergraduate profiles indicative of psychopathology differed significantly in marital and educational status when compared to the no-high-point group 10…

Examined utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) as a longitudinal predictor of psychosocial adaptation to cancer. A post hoc discriminant analysis revealed that 75% of all patients could have been correctly classified into a high-distressed v a low-distressed cancer patient group using only the MMPI. (Author)

Comments are offered on a recent article by Leonard on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) as a suicide predictor. Her appraisal of former studies and her consideration of the differences among individuals with different suicidal behaviors are critically evaluated. A response from Leonard follows. (Author/BEF)

Attempted to demonstrate the utility of Minnesota Multiphasic Pesonality Inventory in identifying sexual offenders against children by using offense characteristics, including gender of the victim, victim's age, relationship of victim to offender, whether the offender used physical force against the victim, and whether the offender molested the…

Performed statistical analyses on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory results of 231 Black and 231 White male and female psychiatric patients matched for sex, age, residence, employment, years of education, marital status, socioeconomic status, and hospital status. Results indicated no differences beyond chance for any of the dependent…