LE DÉPISTAGE DES INADAPTÉS A LA MARINE. Étude préliminaire de validité du Questionnaire MMPI

• Published in: Travail humain (Paris) 1958-07, Vol.21 (3/4), p.193-202
• Main Authors: Quéro, R., Caille, E. J., Micheau, P., Turbiaux, M.
• Format: Article
• Language: fre
• ISSN: 0041-1868; 2104-3663

1° Applied to 260 non-commissioned officers or sailors, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMP1) — abbreviated form — Aas permitted to establish for the majority of the clinical scales the significative differences between, on the one hand, 187 subjects well-adapted to the Navy and, on the other hand, 73 badly adapted or délinquants. 2° The whole of this population (Navy) gives an average MMPI profile sensibly higher than the average profile of the general American population. In particular, the difference is rather marked for the D and Mf scales. A high average at scale F is also noted, especially in the inadapted group (translated by a non-conformism in relation to the American norms). 3° In the group B of the 73 badly adapted subjects, the average profile shows a clear increase of the scores of the D and Sc scales, though these points are on the side of the type discrepancy. 4° if one compares, between the two groups A and B, the percentages of the scores of the clinical scales, exceeding the type discrepancy, these percentages are very significally higher for the group B, except for the Mf and Ma scales, whose utility is debatable. 5° In a reduced sub-group (B 2 : N = 14 subjects) of « social delinquants », a high percentage of abnormal scores at Pd, Pa and Ma scales is noted, which shows the importance of the psychopathic, paranoiac and hypomaniac components of these personalities. However the small number of subjects of this sub-group do not permit it to be said whether the difference observed would be found in a more important population. 6° If the hypothesis was verified that the MMPI permits the detection of the subjects with marked paranoiac and psychopathic tendencies, this inventory, used jointly with the revised form of the Cornell Index (Q.C.1) could come to strengthen usefully our ways of character screening candidates on enlistment. 7° However, the practical difficulties of collective application risk the setting aside of the systematical employ, during the selection on incorporation. The MMPI will, nevertheless remain very useful for the etiologic diagnostic of individual cases of inadaptation in the course of formation or of a career.