title: MMPI-2 in the inpatient assessment of women with eating disorders.
abstract: The MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) reveals similar patterns across all Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) eating-disorder diagnoses. In this study, 550 women with eating disorders completed the MMPI-2. The 3 highest mean elevations for all eating-disorder diagnostic groups occurred on the same scales in the same order: 2, 7, and 3. The modal code for all groups was 2-7/7-2. However, multivariate analyses using the 16 validity and clinical scales, as well as the 27 content and supplementary scales, indicated that the MMPI-2 also distinguishes among eating disorders, especially in that patients with restricting anorexia report less psychopathology than other groups. These results are compared with the results of past eating-disorder research that used the older MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1983).
authors: Research Department, Remuda Ranch Center for Anorexia and Bulimia Inc, Wickenburg, Arizona 85390, USA. drcumella@post.harvard.edu
authors: E J
authors: EJ
authors: Cumella
authors: A D
authors: AD
authors: Wall
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Kerr-Almeida
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008950:MMPI / Q000592:standards*; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*