[Approach to the personality of the coronary patients with a new modifyed MMPI scale (author's transl)].
In order to set up an instrument for psychologically differentiate normal from coronary subjects, the analysis of 550 items of the MMPI in 40 normal and 40 coronary subjects has been performed. This has allowed to elaborate a questionnaire of 69 items, the Polyvar, and two new MMPI scales, which try to focus on the way conflictual affects are being expressed by coronary patients. Applied to new populations, these two instruments permit to significantly differentiate normal from coronary subjects. The last are characterized by a trouble in the existence and a rigid denial of any weakness. They look like individuals who can not satisfy their fundamental pulsions without risking to confront other requests, and through this, they generate anxiety and guilt.
D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D010551:Personality
Approche de la personnalité du coronarien à l'aide de nouvelles grilles de correction du MMPI.