The use of the MMPI for the differentiation of suicidal and non-suicidal depressions.
The MMPI profiles of forty suicidal and forty non-suicidal male and female depressed patients, matched for age, were compared. Significant differences between MMPI scale T scores which showed some sex specificity were found between the suicidal and non-suicidal depressives. These results replicate previous findings. However neither individual scale T scores, derived discriminant functions, nor actuarial or cluster analysis-derived MMPI profiles could completely discriminate between suicidal and non-suicidal depressed inpatients of either sex. The relevance and implications of these findings to the ascertainment of suicidal risk are discussed.
D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*