Characteristics of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in Patients with Depression / 中国康复理论与实践

@#ObjectiveTo investigate the characteristics of personality in patients with depression. Methods24 patients with depression and 24 normal controls were measured with Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) software. ResultsCompared with the control, patient with depression showed significantly difference in neuroticism, extraversionn-introversion, anxiety, repression, manifest anxiety scale, ego strength, dependency, dominance (P<0.05). the T score of N and repression is higher than the Chinese usual score. ConclusionThe depression patients show their personality as repression, inferiority, melancholy, anxiety, bad tolerance, overstrung and dependent.