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Psychiatric patients' religion and MMPI responses
Author(s) -
Groesch Sara J.,
Davis William E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197701)33:1+<168::aid-jclp2270330137>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , psychiatry , psychiatric diagnosis , clinical psychology , protestantism , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , personality , psychoanalysis , religious studies , philosophy
The relationship between psychiatric patients' psychological test responses and their religion has been overlooked in the past. MMPI protocols were obtained from samples of 18 Roman Catholic schizophrenic, 18 Protestant schizophrenic, 18 Roman Catholic drug‐dependent and 18 Protestant drugdependent male patients. The profiles reflected significant religion‐related differences in scales L, HY, D, MF, PA and SC. The results suggest that the religion of the psychiatric patient is a potentially important S variable that could influence the psychiatric diagnosis and subsequent treatment.