[Results of the MMPI-2 test among patients suffer from depressive disorders and organic depressive disorders].

UNLABELLED: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a psychological tool used in the diagnosis of various disorders and a helpful tool in determining the direction of the planned psychotherapeutic interactions. Is considered as a gold standard for diagnosis. The aim of the study was to compare the MMPI-2 test in patients with depressive disorders and organic depressive disorders.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

The study involved 79 people (41 women, 38 men), hospitalized in the Department of Adult Psychiatry Medical University of Łódź. The subjects were divided into two groups: patients with depressive disorders (DD, n = 53) and patients with organic depressive disorders (ODD, n = 26). The study used MMPI-2 test.

RESULTS

There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups in MMPI-2 test. Patients with DD have obtained higher scores on scales forming 'neurotic triad' (hypochondria, depression, hysteria), on a scale of psychopathy, psychasthenia and each of the five subscales of depression scale.

CONCLUSIONS

Patients with depressive disorders achieved higher results than patients with depressive disorders in hypochondria, depression, hysteria, psychopathy, psychasthenia, social introversion scale and each of the five subscales of depression scale. Patients with organic depressive disorders in the test MMPI-2 tend to aggravation (unconscious exaggeration of symptoms), and elevated results on a scale of paranoia, schizophrenia, mania and masculinity-femininity.