MMPI 프로파일에서의 人爲的인 反應

ARTIFICIAL RESPONSES IN THE MMPI PROFILE

The purpose of this study was to examine various patterns of artificial responses in the MMPI profile and its interpretability, and consequently to improve the validity of MMPI as a diagnostic tool. Three types of artificial responses are identified as follows： random response, social conformity or non-conformity, and all yes or all no response. The data of random response were obtained from 30 male and 30 female hypothetical cases by using a table of randon numbers. The data of social conformity and non-conformity response obtained from 200 normal subjects (M =118, F= 82 ) Any item that was responded in a same direction in more than 50% of the responses was counted as social conformity response and any item that was, responded in a same direction in less than 50% of the responses was regarded as social non-conformity response. The profiles of these responses were as follows： (1) Random responses, social non-conformity, and all yes responses suggested “psychotic pattern” with an extremely high elevation on F scale. (2) AIl no responses showed highly defensive “neurotic, tendency” with highly elevated L, & K scales and relatively high F scale. This study suggested that artificial response profiles postulated theoretically invalid were to be useful psychodiagnostic cue in clinical practice.