title: The diagnosis and assessment of depression, mania, and psychosis by self-report.
abstract: We examined the usefulness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the original and revised versions of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI and MCMI-II), and the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) for the diagnosis and assessment of depression, mania, and psychosis in a heterogeneous group of 272 psychiatric inpatients. We examined the following: diagnostic efficiency of single scales at specified cutoff scores for these conditions, multidimensional test profiles, MMPI high-point codes, and associated MCMI and MCMI-II personality disorders. The reported findings are discussed in terms of how these tests may and may not be used to answer particular assessment questions and what the self-report vantage contributes to the entire clinical assessment process.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wetzler
authors.forename: D B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Marlowe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology