Open AccessMinnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Profiles of Patients with Gender Identity Disorder Requesting Sex Reassignment Surgery
Author(s) -
Sagar Karia,
Sanhita Jamsandekar,
Alpa Alure,
Avinash De Sousa,
Nilesh Shah
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.191378
Subject(s) - gender identity disorder , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychopathology , psychology , clinical psychology , sex reassignment surgery (male to female) , personality , psychiatry , gender identity , population , transgender , gender dysphoria , transsexual , medicine , social psychology , environmental health , psychoanalysis
Gender identity disorder (GID) is a distressing disorder characterized by a persistent unhappiness with one's own sex and a desire to be of the opposite sex as well as seeking sex reassignment surgery for the same. The aim of the study was to assess the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) profiles in patients with GID and examine differences in the profiles based on original gender of the patients.