MCMI-II high-point codes: Severe personality disorder and clinical syndrome extensions

• Published in: Journal of clinical psychology Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 228 - 234
• Main Authors: Retzlaff, Paul D., Ofman, Paul, Hyer, Lee, Matheson, Sarah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brandon Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.03.1994; Wiley; Wiley Periodicals Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Codes; Cross-Sectional Studies; Diagnosis Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II; Elderly people; Humans; Incidence; Medical sciences; Mental Disorders - diagnosis; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Mental Disorders - psychology; Middle Aged; Personality; Personality disorders; Personality Disorders - diagnosis; Personality Disorders - epidemiology; Personality Disorders - psychology; Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data; Psychological tests; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reproducibility of Results; Severe; Social research; Techniques and methods; United States - epidemiology; Veterans - psychology; Veterans - statistics & numerical data; United States; Human; Test validation; Evaluation scale; Clinical Multiaxial Inventory Millon; Mental disorder; Adult; Psychometrics; Severity score; Revised drafting; Differential diagnostic; Personality disorder
• ISSN: 0021-9762; 1097-4679
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(199403)50:2<228::AID-JCLP2270500212>3.0.CO;2-T

The MCMI‐II is becoming more widely used in both clinical practice and research settings. From a research perspective, one area that has not received a great deal of attention is high‐point codes. While the MMPI has a very lengthy history of high‐point code analysis and ancillary interpretative manuals, the MCMI‐II has no such traditional data base. The present study determined the prevalence of single and two‐point high codes in a large sample of VA patients. Additionally, associated severe personality scales and clinical syndrome scales are delineated as a function of the 20 most common profiles. These 20 common profiles accounted for 82% of the patients.