Predicting adult psychopathology from adolescent MMPIs: Some Victories

A subset of members of the Hathaway and Monachesi (1953, 1961, 1963) normative adolescent MMPI dataset was examined to find MMPI scales that predict the future onset of schizophrenia or adult psychopathy. The sample consisted of 23 individuals who later developed schizophrenia, 30 individuals who la...

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Published in:Personality and individual differences 2010-09, Vol.49 (4), p.324-330
Main Authors: Bolinskey, P. Kevin, Trumbetta, Susan L., Hanson, Daniel R., Gottesman, Irving I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Endophenotype
Genetics
Medical sciences
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Miscellaneous
MMPI
Personality
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychopathy
Schizophrenia
Techniques and methods
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Summary:A subset of members of the Hathaway and Monachesi (1953, 1961, 1963) normative adolescent MMPI dataset was examined to find MMPI scales that predict the future onset of schizophrenia or adult psychopathy. The sample consisted of 23 individuals who later developed schizophrenia, 30 individuals who later developed psychopathy, and their matched controls. Results suggested that nine MMPI scales could reliably distinguish between schizophrenia and no schizophrenia; an additional nine scales could distinguish between adult psychopathy and no psychopathy. These 18 scales could also be used to discriminate those individuals who later developed schizophrenia from those individuals who later developed psychopathy. The results support the hypothesis that latent personality characteristics can function as endophenotypes for some adult psychopathologies.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.026