title: [The psychological profile using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the value of this test in the evaluation of post-traumatic stress disorder in combat participants].
abstract: Different stress disorders, including the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), developed as the consequence of traumatic stress experience, represent the most frequent patterns of reactive mental disorders of the soldiers in war. Clinical picture of those events has mostly been described in details in the literature, but the search for simple and reliable methods of detection still lasts. The aim of this study was to determine psychological profile and value of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) for the detection and description of PTSD in psychotraumatized examinees. It was investigated totally 119 soldiers--the participants of combat actions in the area of former Yugoslavia, among whom 71 examines formed part of clinical group that manifested symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, and control group consisted of 48 war participants, but without psychopatologic consequences. The investigation was performed by application of MMPI-personality test (form MMPI-201). Significant differences between clinical and control groups of examinees were determined, which confirmed the value of that inventory in the detection of PTSD symptoms. The most discriminative value was noticed in the next test scales: atypical behavior (F), depression (D), and paranola (Pa), that was also observed in relevant foreign studies carried in war veterans.
authors.affiliation: Vojnomedicinska akademija, Institut za mentalno zdravlje i vojnu psihologiju, Beograd.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cabarkapa
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marković
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Popović
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003130:Combat Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D014857:Warfare; D015022:Yugoslavia
vernacular_title: Psiholoski profil na Minesota multifaznom personalnom inventaru i vrednost ovog testa za procenu posttraumatskog stresnog poremećaja kod ucesnika rata.