Citation

Watson CG, Klett WG, Walters C, Vassar P. J. Clin. Psychol. (Hoboken) 1984; 40(1): 115-119.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6746915

Abstract

Compared a suicide-completion group to a psychiatric control sample on the 13 traditional MMPI scales, three experimental item pools, and eight profile patterns earlier described as indicative of suicidal tendencies (N = 84). Also compared the frequencies with which the groups endorsed each of the 566 MMPI items. The number of resulting significant differences was less than chance. The results argue against the use of the MMPI to predict suicide at this time.

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