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MMPI‐derived indicators of organic brain dysfunction
Author(s) -
Sillitti Joseph
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(198207)38:3<601::aid-jclp2270380322>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , organic brain syndrome , short forms , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , personality , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
For more than a decade researchers have been attempting to develop a reliable and valid way in which the MMPI can be used as an indicator of organic brain dysfunctioning. This investigation reviews the major approaches and tries all of them on a sample of 32 organic and 34 schizophrenic hospital patients. Results show that the MMPI methods used assigned patients correctly in 45 to 76% of cases. The Sc scale of the MMPI was generally superior to other scales. Most methods predicted better for women than for men. In all, the idea of making the organic‐schizophrenic distinction on the basis of the MMPI appears to have been a “nice try” that ultimately did not yield the desired results.