BACKGROUND 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 o...

The Response Bias Scale (RBS) and the Henry-Heilbronner Index (HHI) are two recently developed Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) validity scales empirically derived for the purpose of detecting feigned symptom report. Utilizing a veteran sample, the present study examined the utility of these and other MMPI-2 validity scales in predicting Word Memory Test (WMT) failure and ...

Heterosexuals (n = 2S), homosexual insertees (n = 25), and homosexual insertors (n = 2S) were carefully selected from a reformatory population and administered the MMPI and the Mosher Forced-Choice Guilt Inventory. A comparison of MMPI profiles, scores on 3 aspects of guilt, and the intercorrelations between the MMPI scales and the guilt scales indicated many significant differences. The inmate...

This study examined the associations among loneliness, stressful life events, urinary cortisol levels, and immunocompetency. Blood and urine were obtained from 33 psychiatric inpatients on the day after admission, at which time the patients completed the UCLA Loneliness Scale, the Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Interview Life Events Scale (PERI), and the MMPI. Patients who scored above the m...

This article presents the results of 2 studies conducted with Spanish versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) with Latino students. Study 1 compared the results of 2 administrations of the MMPI-2, one in English and the other in Spanish. Study 2 compared the results of administrations of 2 Spanish versions of the MMPI-2, the official Mexican adaptation and the Ver...

An approach to incremental learning of Good Maximally Redundant Diagnostic Tests (GMRTs) is considered. GMRT is a special formal concept in Formal Concept Analysis. Mining GMRTs from data is based on Galois lattice construction. Four situations of learning GMRTs are considered: inserting an object (value) and deleting an object (value). An application to modeling intellectual development of cad...

The problem of adolescents who commit homicides is of increasing concern in its own right, as well as from the possibility of their facing execution. In this study, a psychiatric and psychological assessment was aimed at screening out a group of juveniles who were being considered for certification to adult court in terms of depressive symptomatology. Within a group of 213, 30 males and 14 fema...

We used measures of positive affect and emotional expression to distinguish and better understand veterans with PTSD with symptom overreporting presentation styles. Based on prior research, symptom overreporting was defined as scores greater than eight on the F(p) (Infrequency-Psychopathology) scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2). Data were drawn from an archival ...

A recent meta-analysis found that the Rorschach Prognostic Rating Scale (RPRS) had a strong ability to predict subsequent outcome (r = .44, N = 783; Meyer & Handler, 1997, this issue). However, that review did not directly address questions of incremental validity. This article focuses on the ability of the RPRS to predict outcome after taking into account other sources of data. Across studies ...