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Suicide Risk and the MMPI-2 Findings Among College Students  

Lee, Kounseok (Department of Psychiatry, St. Andrew's Hospital)
Lee, Hye Kyung (Department of Nursing, Kongju National University)
Kim, Seok Hyeon (Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Hospital)
Jang, Eun-Young (Department of Psychiatry, Hanyang University Guri Hospital)
Kim, Daeho (Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Hanyang University)
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Anxiety and mood / v.11, no.2, 2015 , pp. 120-128 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives : The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a commonly used psychological test measuring personality and psychopathology in both clinical and non-clinical population. This study was to evaluate characteristic MMPI-2 profile associated with the risk of suicide among college students. Methods : We analyzed the survey response of 2,964 college students who participated in a health survey from a school health center at a national university in 2011. Those who endorsed any of six items on the suicidaity module of MINI were classified as a suicide risk group and remaining students who did not as a control group. Then we compared the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) score, the MMPI-2 Clinical scales and Restructured Clinical (RC) scales. To evaluate the correlation RC scales with suicidality score, Pearson correlation analysis was performed. Results : The suicide risk group was 464 students, and the control group was 2,500. The classification result of suicidality, 255 (8.6%) students were low-risk group, 149 (4.8%) students were moderate-risk group and 60 (2.0%) students were high-risk group. In the suicide risk group, VRIN, F scale, Clinical scale and RC scales were significantly higher. In the control group L, K and S scales were significantly higher. Suicidality score has significant correlation with all RC scales. Conclusion : In the suicide risk group, overall psychopathology was higher than the control group. Taken together, features of depressive symptom, antisocial behavior, aggressiveness, introversion may indicate the risk of suicide in college students. These results display both clinical and public health implications for clinicians and school health professionals.
Keywords
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventor-2; Suicide; Risk factors; College students;
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