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Psychopharmacologic Investigations in Healthy Elderly Volunteers: MMPI Depression Scale †
Author(s) -
Harmatz Jerold S.,
Shader Richard I.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1975.tb00325.x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , medicine , depression (economics) , normative , personality , psychiatry , geriatric depression scale , psychological testing , personality test , clinical psychology , psychometrics , scale (ratio) , personality assessment inventory , gerontology , test validity , psychology , anxiety , depressive symptoms , epistemology , economics , macroeconomics , social psychology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The Depression Scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was used as a screening test for healthy volunteers in a psychopharmacologic research study. Data were collected on 43 men and 46 women under age 35 versus 33 men and 43 women over age 65 (plus a subsequent group of 40 men over age 65), and comparisons were made with more extensive data from the Mayo Clinic. The evidence indicates that elderly subjects differ strikingly from young subjects in their responses to items in the MMPI self‐ratings of depression. Revised information on normative responses is needed. At present there are too many problems of interpretation when the Depression Scale items are applied to the elderly.