Test profiles as a diagnostic aid: the Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory

Abstract

Data were gathered by means of the Inventory on two groups of white enlisted men of the Air Force being studied at a personnel replacement pool. The normal control group contained 98 cases referred for problems concerning administration, while the 121 cases comprising the second group were seen because of maladjustment in the Army situation. Four neuropsychiatrists clinically diagnosed the affected cases as falling into 5 groups: inadequate, sexual psychopathy, mild neurotic, severe neurotic, and psychotic. T-score profiles were obtained from the 12 scales of the test for both groups. The Inventory distinguished "graphically and with statistical significance between normal soldiers and those diagnosed as constitutional psychopaths; mild or severe neurosis; and psychosis," and differentiated between major clinical groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)