E-ISSN : 2733-4538
Present research aimed to investigate MMPI response characteristic of criminal offenders who are referred to perform a psychological evaluation. The 59 criminal offenders' 383 MMPI data, that verbal IQ was above 80, were used. The cluster analysis was administered with input variable of MMPI subscales, and extracted four groups. The result showed that the group mean differences in most of the scales were significant except for Mf subscale. The first group(n=12) showed relatively a normal MMPI profile patterns. The second group(n=11) tended to overstate one's trouble in validity scale of MMPI. The third group(n=19) and forth group(n=17) were paid attention because they had clearly psychopathologic symptoms in adaptation. This result was discussed not only criminal type of each cluster group in detail, but limitations of this study and suggestions for the further research.