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Psychometric features related to the acute phase and final outcome of anorexia nervosa
Author(s) -
GUNDERSEN JAN II. R.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1989.tb01071.x
Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , psychopathology , outcome (game theory) , clinical psychology , anorexia , psychometrics , psychiatry , personality , eating disorders , medicine , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical economics
The MMPI responses of a poor and good final outcome group from a follow‐up study of anorexia nervosa were compared with responses of a group of anorexic patients in the acute phase. The poor outcome group produced elevated scores in the psychopathological range except on scales 4, 5 and 9. No elevations occurred in the good outcome group and the MMPI thus discriminated significantly between different kinds of final outcome of anorexia nervosa. The profile of the patients in the acute phase at time of testing was not significantly different from the poor outcome group profile. In order to improve the predictive validity of the MMPI related to anorexia nervosa, the paper points to possible directions for further research.