MMPI-2 in the Inpatient Assessment of Women With Eating Disorders

The MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) reveals similar patterns across all Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) eating-disorder diagnoses. In this study, 550 women with eating disorders completed the M...

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Published in:Journal of personality assessment 2000-12, Vol.75 (3), p.387-403
Main Authors: Cumella, Edward J., Wall, A. David, Kerr-Almeida, Noëlle
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Discriminant Analysis
Eating disorders
Feeding and Eating Disorders - diagnosis
Feeding and Eating Disorders - psychology
Female
Humans
Inpatients - psychology
Interview, Psychological
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
MMPI - standards
Multivariate Analysis
Personality tests
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Techniques and methods
Women
Women - psychology
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Summary:The MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) reveals similar patterns across all Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) eating-disorder diagnoses. In this study, 550 women with eating disorders completed the MMPI-2. The 3 highest mean elevations for all eating-disorder diagnostic groups occurred on the same scales in the same order: 2, 7, and 3. The modal code for all groups was 2-7/7-2. However, multivariate analyses using the 16 validity and clinical scales, as well as the 27 content and supplementary scales, indicated that the MMPI-2 also distinguishes among eating disorders, especially in that patients with restricting anorexia report less psychopathology than other groups. These results are compared with the results of past eating-disorder research that used the older MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1983).
ISSN:0022-3891
1532-7752
DOI:10.1207/S15327752JPA7503_03