E-ISSN : 2733-4538
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory has been one of the most powerful diagnostic toot in psychological assessment, This study investigated how well MMPI discriminated the depressive patients and what profile pattern this group showed. MMPI was administered to 118 depressive patients. So it was founded 2-1-3-7 profile by total mean of T score of each MMPI scale. Three subgroups were formed as a result of multivariate cluster analysis of T scores each. The first subgroup(52%) showed a profile 2-1-3, the second subgroup(36%) 3-2-1, and the third subgroup(12%) 2-1-8-7. This findings suggest MMPI has a remarkable discriminating power in depressive group, in addition, Korean compared to western norm concerns about somatic symptoms.