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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profile characteristics of schizotypal personality disorder
Author(s) -
MATSUI MIÉ,
SUMIYOSHI TOMIKI,
NIU LISHA,
KUROKAWA KENZO,
KURACHI MASAYOSHI
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2002.01034.x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , schizotypy , schizotypal personality disorder , personality , population , psychopathology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , personality assessment inventory , positive and negative syndrome scale , psychosis , medicine , social psychology , environmental health
The goal of the present study was to determine whether precursors for psychopathology can be found in personality dimensions of the general population. Two hundred and 62 university students were compared with 41 schizophrenic patients and 18 patients with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Schizotypal personality disorder patients showed significantly elevated Pt and Si scales compared with the schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia and SPD groups generally produced two‐point codetypes of 6–8/8–6, 2–6/6–2, 7–8/8–7, and 7–8/8–7, 2–7/7–2, 6–8/8–6. A total of 77.5% of students had no codetype with a T ‐value of ≥ 70, although the frequency of codetypes of spike 5, spike 0 and 2–7/7–2 was relatively high in the student group compared with the general population. Discriminant function analysis of the MMPI profiles revealed significant variance among the three groups. The overall rate of correct classification of the subjects into schizophrenia, SPD or university students was 90.3%. The first coefficient, mainly defined by a negative weight on the Sc scale, best distinguished the patients with either schizophrenia or SPD from the students. The second coefficient, defined by negative weights on the Sc and Si scales, and positive weights on the F and Ma scales identified patients with schizophrenia and SPD patients. The Harris‐Lingoes subscales, which are supposed to provide the profile patterns characteristic of schizotypy, well discriminated the three groups. These results suggest the usefulness of the MMPI subscales for the detection of subjects with the SPD trait.