MMPI and Clinical Scales Compared
F. G. STEPHENS M.B., M.R.C.S., D.P.M.1 and
M. VALENTINE M.D., F.R.C.Psych.2
1 Clinical Assistant, Glenside Hospital, Bristol BS16 1DD
2 Consultant Psychiatrist, Glenside Hospital, Bristol BS16 1DD
In a study involving 70 patients who completed the automated MMPI (personality test) and who also had a standardized psychiatric interview (CAPRICE system), there were significant or highly significant associations between the MMPI scales for Depression, Manifest Anxiety and Schizophrenia, and the nearly equivalent scales derived from the codified psychiatric interview. These association held good whether the group was formed to include or exclude the encountered one-seventh of MMPI records of doubtful validity because of high F scores. In those records of doubtful validity there were positive but non-significant associations for the same three scales. The MMPI scale for phobias, obsessions and compulsions did not associate significantly with the clinical scale of obsessional-compulsive disorder in any of the groups.
Submitted on July 13, 1973
