Personality patterns of drug abusers as shown by MMPI profiles
✍ Scribed by Hardin A. Collins; Gary K. Burger; Gregory A. Taylor
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 327 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
MMPI and 16 PF patterns of a group of drug abusers who were participating in a voluntary VA Drug Abuse Program were investigated. The MMPI profiles of 91 male veterans who ranged in age from 18-45 years were classified according to two-point code types. A comparison was made of the most frequently occurring code types among drug abusers, medical patients, and psychiatric patients. The two modal profile types among drug abusers were the 4-9/94 and the 2-4/4-2, which accounted for 32% of the sample. An additional comparison between the two modal types and responses to the 16 PF was made. Results indicate a closer resemblance to psychiatric atients than to medical atients, and the variety of high point code types is &cussed. The similarity getween the present sample of modal code types with research on drug abusers undertaken 20 years previously also is discussed.