|
KMID : 1143820120080020079
|
|
Anxiety and Mood
2012 Volume.8 No. 2 p.79 ~ p.85
|
|
|
MMPI Characteristics of the Suicide Attempter Visiting Emergency Unit
|
|
서형철:Seo Hyeong-Chull
오성범:Oh Seong-Beom/김태훈:Kim Tae-Hun/이준형:Lee Jun-Hyung/강석훈:Kang Suk-Hun/임명호:Lim Myung-Ho
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Objective : The current study investigated the psychopathology characteristics of the suicide attempter visited in a university hospital for one year using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test commonly used in clinical medicine.
Methods : 72 suicide attempter and 115 control group completed the Korean version of the MMPI.
Results : The MMPI scores of the suicide attempters were significantly higher on the lie (L), infrequency (F), defensiveness (K), paranoia (Pa), psychasthenia (Pt), schizophrenia (Sc), hypomania (Ma) than the comparison group.
Conclusion : We supposed that suicide attempter have more chance of being paranoid, psychasthenic, schizoid or hypomanic than the control group relatively. They seem to have psychotic psychopathology rather than neurotic psychopathology. These results suppoed that the psychopatholgy of suicide attempter may be different from the control group. However the final decision is indefinite, it needs more well designed systemic studies.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Suicide attempter, Emergency room, MMPI, Psychopatholgy
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|