An examination of the clinical validity of the MCMI-III Depressive Personality scale.
We examined the redundancy and incremental validity of the newly introduced Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) Depressive Personality scale with a heterogeneous sample of 283 psychiatric inpatients. Linear and nominal bivariate correlations indicated sizable overlap between the MCMI-III Depressive, Avoidant, and Self-Defeating Personality scales. Also, the Depressive Personality scale showed moderate overlap with the MCMI-III Major Depression scale. Despite this redundancy, the Depressive Personality scale made significant independent contributions in predicting Axis-I measures of depression, i.e., the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) Depression and Interpersonal Sensitivity scales, as well as the MCMI-III Major Depression scale. The Depressive Personality scale appears to be dimensionally related to these measures of Axis-I depression.
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Prairie View, Inc., Newton, KS 67114, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012494:Sampling Studies