Profile clusters of the MCMI-II personality disorder scales

✍ Scribed by Maurice Lorr; Stephen Strack

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 414 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(199009)46:5<606::aid-jclp2270460510>3.0.co;2-e

✦ Synopsis

An analysis was conducted to identify the major personality disorder score profiles to be found in the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory 11. Application of Ward's agglomerative hierarchical procedure to two subsamples of psychiatric patients (n = 83 for each) yielded four replicated subgroups. A subsequent K-means nonhierarchical approach confirmed four of the Ward clusters. Three subgroups can be characterized as (a) Antisocial, Aggressive (Sadistic), and Passive-Aggressive; (b) Avoidant, Schizoid, and Self-Defeating, and (c) Schizoid, Dependent, and Compulsive. A fourth sizable group is comprised of patients with flat profiles.

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of An Quing Shi in the computer analysis of the data.