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Screening for borderline personality disorders with the MMPI‐168
Author(s) -
Lloyd Camille,
Overall John E.,
Click Maurice
Publication year - 1983
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(198309)39:5<722::aid-jclp2270390513>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , percentile , clinical psychology , extraversion and introversion , personality assessment inventory , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychopathology , personality , psychiatry , borderline personality disorder , paranoia , hysteria , big five personality traits , statistics , social psychology , mathematics
Investigated the possible use of the MMPI‐168 as a screening instrument for identifying individuals ( N = 27) with DSM III diagnosed borderline personality disorder. Using previously reported percentile norms for bright young college graduates as a reference, borderline patients as a group fell above the 98th percentile on the F, Hypochondriasis, Depression, Hysteria, Psychopathic Deviate, Psychasthenia and Schizophrenia scales, as well as the general psychopathology scale (PSY). Additionally, the borderline sample's mean score on the Paranoia scale was above the 95th percentile, and the mean Social Introversion scale was above the 90th percentile, Almost equally distinguishing was the finding that the mean K scale score for the borderline sample fell as low as the 8th percentile for the normative college sample. These results demonstrate that the MMPI‐168 response pattern of borderline patients was clearly distinguishable from the great majority of college graduates.