UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether personality traits, as assessed by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), at time of college entry can predict the number of reported pain conditions at an approximate 30-year follow-up for 2332 subjects, 1834 men and 498 women, who were administered the MMPI on entry to the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) ...

Lithium, manic-depressive illness, and psychological test performance For over 10 years patients responding to treatment at a lithium clinic' have been free from psychiatric symptoms. Little is known about the psychological performance of such patients, but a report,2 using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), confirmed that lithium produces a response in depression. Clinical...

Extensive research has been conducted on the use of the MMPI and MMPI-2 scales for assessing anger control problems or overly aggressive behavior (see Reference File for more complete listing). The following highlights describe a number of research studies that have addressed these problems. Major research studies and valuable summary projects are highlighted and their findings/implications not...

It has long been recognized that personality test scores are influenced by non-test-relevant response determinants. Wiggins and Rumrill (1959) distinguish three approaches to this problem. Briefly, interest in the problem of response distortion has been concerned with attempts at statistical correction for "faking good" or "faking bad" (Meehl & Hathaway, 1946), the analysis of response sets (Cr...

Abstract Objective Severe memory impairment in epilepsy is associated with increased difficulties daily living that extend beyond the limitations of having seizure disorder and create greater emotional burden. Accordingly, current study explored psychopathological differences between patients without severe impairment. Method This retrospective chart review included 78 adults who underwentneuro...

Psychological tests are intended to measure individual differences. One of the first things most people associate with psychology is testing. You can find some kind of "psychological test" in popular magazines, which claim to measure everything from your intelligence or your personality to how good a lover you are. Such tests can be described as "pop tests.” Most people have also heard of and m...

OBJECTIVES Evidence in the literature suggests stress-related changes of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in mobbing. We investigated the association between HPA activity and psychological profiles in mobbing, using a multidisciplinary approach. DESIGN Forty-eight victims of mobbing were evaluated by a working group of the Departments of Occupational Medicine, Psychiatry and Internal...

OBJECTIVE To examine the validity and reliability of a Japanese version of the Symptom Checklist 90 Revised (SCL-90-R (J)). METHODS The English SCL-90-R was translated to Japanese and the Japanese version confirmed by back-translation. To determine the factor validity and internal consistency of the nine primary subscales, 460 people from the community completed SCL-90-R(J). Test-retest relia...

The current investigation evaluated the psychological profiles of applicants to seminary who were identified as being either homosexual or heterosexual in orientation. The MMPI-2 from 63 seminary applicants conducted between 1990 and 2004 was reviewed. Results indicate that 49 applicants (78%) identified themselves as being heterosexual while 14 applicants (22%) identified themselves as being h...