Evaluation
of clinical depression by means of a Japanese translation of the
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
H. Hama |
The
purpose of the present study is to evaluate in terms of the D scale
of the MMPI the characteristic Japanese clinical depression and to
mare a comparative evaluation with that of patients in America. 30
depressive patients were selected for the experimental group. For
the control group 80 college students were used. The findings were
summarized with various methods including item analysis and profile
pattern analysis, etc. The profile pattern of the depressive group
presented the typical configuration of a depression profile in the
two high points of the D and Pt scales, as had been the case in the
U.S.
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