E-ISSN : 2733-4538
This study was to find out if the schizophrenic patients and the hospitalized offenders had role taking ability. Three groups participated in this study; the schizophrenic group(N=19), the hospitalized offender group(N=19), and the normal group(N=19). The subjects were asked to respond on the MMPI by three different instructions in order to measure the ability to fake-good and fake-bad. The results showed that the schizophrenic group and the hospitalized offender group did not have role taking ability and that the offenders were unable to feign nonaggressiveness the Pd scale.