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Differentiating brain damage from schizophrenia: A further test of Russell's MMPI key
Author(s) -
Trifiletti Robert J.
Publication year - 1982
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(198201)38:1<39::aid-jclp2270380104>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , key (lock) , test (biology) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , personality , social psychology , computer security , paleontology , computer science , biology
Previous attempts to differentiate brain‐damaged from schizophrenic patients largely have been inconsistent when employing various methods derived from the MMPI. Russell developed an MMPI key for this purpose that is based on an explicit rationale of differential MMPI test performance for these populations. The present study used this MMPI key in an attempt to distinguish 20 brain‐damaged, 21 schizophrenic and 24 clinically depressed Ss . The results demonstrated that the key has some clinical utility in making the distinction between brain damage and schizophrenia; however, it performed poorly in correctly classifying the depressed Ss.