Personality Study of Nocturnal Teeth-Grinders

1968 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georges R. Reding ◽  
Harold Zepelin ◽  
Lawrence J. Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disturbance ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Student Population ◽  
University Student ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Medical Index

30 nocturnal teeth grinders (bruxists) and 30 matched controls randomly selected from a university student population were compared on the basis of histories of emotional disturbance and responses to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Cornell Medical Index. No significant personality differences on these tests between teeth-grinders and controls were observed.

Locus of Control in Short and Long Sleepers

1986 ◽  
Vol 148 (6) ◽  
pp. 739-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Anand Kumar ◽  
A. K. Vaidya
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Medical Index

Behavioural scientists are currently attempting to correlate individuals' usual duration of sleep with personality traits as well as with personality profiles. Studies using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and Cornell Medical Index have suggested that differences between “short sleepers” and “long sleepers” show up in such traits as self-control, anxiety, extroversion, aggression and ambition (Hartmann et al, 1972; Spinweber & Hartmann, 1976), although Webb & Friel (1970, 1971) found no such differences. Glaubmann & Orbach (1977) observed short sleepers to be efficient, energetic, ambitious, self-content and socially well adjusted.

Effects of Information About Validity Scales on Underreporting of Symptoms on the MMPI-2

Assessment ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth A. Baer ◽  
Martha W. Wetter ◽  
David T. R. Berry
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
General Information ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Validity Scales ◽  
College Student Population

The effects of two levels of information about the validity scales of the MMPI-2 on underreporting of symptoms were investigated in a college-student population. Subjects who were instructed and offered incentives to underreport were given no information, general information, or detailed information about the validity scales and were compared to a standard-control group. Results suggested that traditional and supplementary underreporting scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—2 (MMPI-2) are effective in discriminating standard subjects from uncoached underre-porters, but are much less effective in discriminating standard subjects from subjects given either general or detailed information about the underreporting scales. The findings suggest that coaching may enable some subjects to underreport symptoms without detection, but that at least one scale ( Wsd) shows promising resistance to coaching.

PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SUCCESSFULLY AND UNSUCCESSFULLY TREATED DRUG ABUSERS

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Biasco ◽  
Charles O. Fritch ◽  
David Redfering
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Drug Abusers ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Introversion ◽  
Code Type ◽  
Point Code

Personality differences of 71 residents in a therapeutic community drug abuse program were examined with the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Successfully treated males scored significantly (p<.05) higher on scales of Hypochondriasis (Hs), Hysteria (Hy), and Masculinity-Femininity (Mf). Successfully treated females obtained a significantly (p<.05) higher score on the Social Introversion (Si) scale. Unsuccessfully treated females scored significantly (p<.05) higher than the successfully treated females on the Masculinity-Femininity (Mf) scales. Of the two-point code types, all of the 49-94 code types were unsuccessful; the largest number of successfully treated drug abusers for any one code type was in the 48-84 code type.

MMPI-2/A ASSESSED PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES IN PEOPLE WHO DO, AND DO NOT, STUTTER

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Treon ◽  
Lloyd Dempster ◽  
Karen Blaesing
Keyword(s):  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Emotional Functioning ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Emotional Disorder ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Somatic Complaints ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Personality Differences

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2 and MMPI-A) was administered to 60 subjects who stutter (SWS) and to 60 matched subjects who do not stutter (SWNS). Computer scored results indicate a statistically significant (p = .017) greater average tendency toward psychosocial-emotional disorder in SWS than in SWNS. Also, mean T-scores in 24 of the 93 scales/subscales assessed were statistically significantly higher for SWS than for SWNS, especially in personality characteristics related to schizophrenia, depression, healthy concerns-somatic complaints, psychasthenia, anxiety-fearfulness, and self-doubt/selfdepreciation. Overall, these findings tend to support the tendency toward psychopathology (TTP) pole of the etiologic bipolar stuttering threshold hypothesis (Treon, 1995, 2002). In accord with this hypothesis, average MMPI-2/A T-scores for SWS were within the normal range of psychosocial-emotional functioning.

Predictability of Treatment Outcome in Patients with Myofascial Pain-Dysfunction (MPD) Syndrome

1979 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 1341-1346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shana Millstein-Prentky ◽  
Ronald E. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Myofascial Pain ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Single Scale ◽  
Myofascial Pain Dysfunction ◽  
Item Scale

Responses to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) were used to develop a 29-item scale designed to predict the treatment outcome of 135 patients with Myofascial Pain-Dysfunction (MPD) Syndrome. The results suggested that a single scale to predict treatment outcome would be ineffective due to the absence of consistent personality differences in MPD patients.

MMPI-2 in Child Custody Litigation

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Roma ◽  
Federica Ricci ◽  
Georgios D. Kotzalidis ◽  
Luigi Abbate ◽  
Anna Lubrano Lavadera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Custody Evaluations ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
Child Custody Evaluations ◽  
Italian Women

In recent years, several studies have addressed the issue of positive self-presentation bias in assessing parents involved in postdivorce child custody litigations. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is widely used in forensic assessments and is able to evaluate positive self-presentation through its Superlative Self-Presentation S scale. We investigated the existence of a gender effect on positive self-presentation bias in an Italian sample of parents involved in court evaluation. Participants were 391 divorced parents who completed the full 567-item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 during child custody evaluations ordered by several Italian courts between 2006 and 2010. Our analysis considered the S scale along with the basic clinical scales. North-American studies had shown no gender differences in child custody litigations. Differently, our results showed a significantly higher tendency toward “faking-good” profiles on the MMPI-2 among Italian women as compared to men and as compared to the normative Italian female population. Cultural and social factors could account for these differences.

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