MMPI

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A caution on the use of the MMPI K-correction in research on psychosomatic medicine. 
  • A multi-center evaluation of the McGill Pain Questionnaire: results from more than 1700 chronic pain patients. 
  • A short MMPI scale to identify people likely to begin smoking. 
  • A survey instrument for the assessment of popular conceptions of mental illness. 
  • Age and gender differences in the content scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. 
  • Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of community subcultures. 
  • Behavioral treatment of chronic low back pain: clinical outcome and individual differences in pain relief. 
  • Binge eating in obesity: associated MMPI characteristics. 
  • Chronic posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic pain in Vietnam combat veterans. 
  • Comment on: Validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) scores as a function of gender, ethnicity, and age of bariatric surgery candidates. 
  • Cortical excitability in cocaine-dependent patients: a replication and extension of TMS findings. 
  • Cynicism and paranoid alienation in the Cook and Medley HO Scale. 
  • Diagnosis of major depression by self-report. 
  • Do comparative self-appraisals during young adulthood predict adult personality? 
  • Does personality at college entry predict number of reported pain conditions at mid-life? A longitudinal study. 
  • Empirical development of an MMPI subscale for the assessment of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Hostility as a predictor of survival in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Hostility during late adolescence predicts coronary risk factors at mid-life. 
  • Hostility patterns and health implications: correlates of Cook-Medley Hostility Scale scores in a national survey. 
  • Hostility, CHD incidence, and total mortality: a 25-year follow-up study of 255 physicians. 
  • In vivo quantitation of basal ganglia and thalamic degenerative changes in two temporal lobectomy patients with affective disorder. 
  • Is running an analogue of anorexia nervosa? An empirical study of obligatory running and anorexia nervosa. 
  • MacAndrew Addiction Scale and other MMPI characteristics associated with obesity, anorexia and smoking behavior. 
  • Measures of neuroticism and disease status in coronary angiography patients. 
  • Medical, psychological and social correlates of work disability among men with coronary artery disease. 
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) cluster groups among chronically ill patients: relationship to illness adjustment and treatment outcome. 
  • Patterns of appraisal and coping across different stressor conditions among former prisoners of war with and without posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Peritraumatic dissociation and posttraumatic stress in male Vietnam theater veterans. 
  • Personality factors differentially predict exercise behavior in men and women. 
  • Personality measures as predictors of smoking initiation and cessation in the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Physiological and psychological variables predict compliance to prescribed exercise therapy in patients recovering from myocardial infarction. 
  • Predicting personality in adulthood from college MMPI scores: implications for follow-up studies in psychosomatic medicine. 
  • Prediction of all-cause mortality by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Optimism-Pessimism Scale scores: study of a college sample during a 40-year follow-up period. 
  • Prospective study of externalizing and internalizing subtypes of posttraumatic stress disorder and their relationship to mortality among Vietnam veterans. 
  • Psychological correlates of hostility among patients undergoing coronary angiography. 
  • Psychometric detection of fabricated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Psychosocial and physical predictors of anginal pain relief with medical management. 
  • Sex differences in pain drawing area for individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain. 
  • Situational determinants of cardiovascular and emotional reactivity in high and low hostile men. 
  • Stability in extraversion and aspects of social support at midlife. 
  • Symptoms of depression, acute myocardial infarction, and total mortality in a community sample. 
  • The Cook-Medley hostility scale: item content and ability to predict survival. 
  • The Infrequency-Posttraumatic Stress Disorder scale (Fptsd) for the MMPI-2: development and initial validation with veterans presenting with combat-related PTSD. 
  • The MMPI as a measure of the emotional correlates of chronic hemodialysis: a review. 
  • The Mini-Mult: a cautionary note. 
  • The Personality Assessment Inventory Alcohol Scale in Veterans With PTSD: Convergent and Discriminant Relations With the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. 
  • The impact of psychologic factors on measurement of functional status. Assessment of the sickness impact profile. 
  • The relative value of lumbar roentgenograms, metrizamide myelography, and discography in the assessment of patients with chronic low-back syndrome. 
  • Type A behavior, hostility, and coronary atherosclerosis. 
  • Type As who think they are type Bs: discrepancies between self-ratings and interview ratings of the type A (coronary-prone) behaviour pattern. 
  • Unimproved chest pain in patients with minimal or no coronary disease: a behavioral phenomenon. 
  • Using college alumni populations in epidemiologic research: the UNC Alumni Heart Study. 
  • Utility of the Faschingbauer abbreviated MMPI as a function of patient group and sex. 
  • Validity rates of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 in a VA Medical Center Setting. 
  • Work-site clinical and neurobehavioral assessment of solvent-exposed microelectronics workers. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society