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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1995; 18(4):391-397

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1995.18.4.391

Original Article

Study on MMPI of the Organic Brain Syndrome Group and he Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Group

Young Sook Park

Copyright ⓒ 1995. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

The present study was conducted to compare the MMPI profile of 29 Posttraumatic StressDisorder patients with 25 Organic Brain Affective or Personality Disoder patiene who were admitted to Ewha Womans University Hospital from March to August of 1995. MMPI-R(Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), consisted of 556 items and of the revised standard form, was administered to the subjects. No significant difference was found between thetwo groups in age, sex, and education level.

Results of the present study were as follows :

1) Two subgroups were formed as a result of multivariate cluster analysis of T scores of allMMPI scales from the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder group. The first sub-group (N=22) showed moderate high socre on 3-1-2, 7-8 scales. The second sub-group (N=7) presented severehigh score on F validity scale and all clinical scale exept 5 scale so the t scores of 8-6-7,1-2-3-4scales were within 65-80.

2) Two subgroups were formed as a result of multivariate cluster analysis of T scores of allMMPI scales from the Organic Brain Affective or Personality Disorder group. The first subgroup (N=8) gave mild high score on K scale and on no clinical scales. The second sub-group(N=17) presented moderate high score on F scale and on 1,2,3,6,7,8 scales.

3) Exept for the defensive groups, it was found that F,6 scales and 3 scale were useful to differntiate the Posttraumatic Stress Disoders from the Organic Brain Affective or Personality Disorders.

4) The results suggest that MMPI is useful to differentiate the Posttraumatic Stress Disodersfrom the Organic Brain Affective or Personality Disorders.

Keywords: Organic brain Syndrome; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Minnesota multipasic personality inventory : MMPI