Does MMPI assessed at medical school admission predict psychological problems in later years?

OBJECTIVE: Psychological distress among medical students is related to personality. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a common instrument used to assess personality and psychological problems during the medical school admission process in Thailand. The purpose of this study w...

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Autores principales: Thongpibul, Kulvadee, Varnado, Pairada, Wongpakaran, Nahathai, Wongpakaran, Tinakon, Kuntawong, Pimolpun, Wedding, Danny
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4524-5
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author Thongpibul, Kulvadee
Varnado, Pairada
Wongpakaran, Nahathai
Wongpakaran, Tinakon
Kuntawong, Pimolpun
Wedding, Danny
author_facet Thongpibul, Kulvadee
Varnado, Pairada
Wongpakaran, Nahathai
Wongpakaran, Tinakon
Kuntawong, Pimolpun
Wedding, Danny
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description OBJECTIVE: Psychological distress among medical students is related to personality. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a common instrument used to assess personality and psychological problems during the medical school admission process in Thailand. The purpose of this study was to examine how the MMPI can predict medical students’ psychological problems including perceived stress, anxiety, depression, interpersonal difficulties as well as self-esteem in later years. RESULTS: Anxiety and depressive symptoms were predicted by the psychopathic deviation, psychasthenia, and schizophrenia scales of the MMPI, while perceived stress was predicted by schizophrenia scale of MMPI. Social introversion predicted interpersonal difficulties. No MMPI scale was found to predict self-esteem. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4524-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-66833502019-08-09 Does MMPI assessed at medical school admission predict psychological problems in later years? Thongpibul, Kulvadee Varnado, Pairada Wongpakaran, Nahathai Wongpakaran, Tinakon Kuntawong, Pimolpun Wedding, Danny BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Psychological distress among medical students is related to personality. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a common instrument used to assess personality and psychological problems during the medical school admission process in Thailand. The purpose of this study was to examine how the MMPI can predict medical students’ psychological problems including perceived stress, anxiety, depression, interpersonal difficulties as well as self-esteem in later years. RESULTS: Anxiety and depressive symptoms were predicted by the psychopathic deviation, psychasthenia, and schizophrenia scales of the MMPI, while perceived stress was predicted by schizophrenia scale of MMPI. Social introversion predicted interpersonal difficulties. No MMPI scale was found to predict self-esteem. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4524-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6683350/ /pubmed/31382988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4524-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Varnado, Pairada
Wongpakaran, Nahathai
Wongpakaran, Tinakon
Kuntawong, Pimolpun
Wedding, Danny
Does MMPI assessed at medical school admission predict psychological problems in later years?
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title_full Does MMPI assessed at medical school admission predict psychological problems in later years?
title_fullStr Does MMPI assessed at medical school admission predict psychological problems in later years?
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title_short Does MMPI assessed at medical school admission predict psychological problems in later years?
title_sort does mmpi assessed at medical school admission predict psychological problems in later years?
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4524-5
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