E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The present study investigated characteristics of adolescent MMPI responses who have psychiatric problems. Subjects of this research were psychiatric patients visited Severance Hospital from March, 1995 to February, 1996. They were in total 46, evenly divided between in-patient and out-patient group. Among them 13 were middle school students and the other 33 were high school students. High proportion of in-patient group were diagnosed as Schizophrenia, conduct disorder, mood disorder compared with mood disorder, conduct disorder, adjustment disorder were frequently found to be out-patient group. The data was statistically processed through cluster analysis. By cluster analysis 4 subgroups were extracted, and specific MMPI profiles were revealed. Relations of mood disorder and conduct disorder of male adolescent patients and implications for treatment were discussed.