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Identification of suicide attempters by means of MMPI profiles
Author(s) -
Clopton James R.,
Post Robin Dee,
Larde Judy
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(198311)39:6<868::aid-jclp2270390609>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , multivariate analysis , multivariate analysis of variance , clinical psychology , identification (biology) , poison control , multivariate statistics , linear discriminant analysis , injury prevention , psychiatry , suicide attempt , human factors and ergonomics , medical emergency , medicine , personality , statistics , social psychology , botany , mathematics , biology
Used multivariate procedures to determine whether psychiatric patients who had made a suicide attempt immediately prior to hospitalization ( N = 161) could be differentiated from nonsuicidal psychiatric patients ( N = 161). Multivariate analysis of variance and cluster analysis failed to identify differences in the MMPI data of suicidal and nonsuicidal patients. In contrast, discriminant analysis produced a modest degree of differentiation that generally was maintained in the cross‐validation.