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. 2017 Mar;14(2):166-171.
doi: 10.4306/pi.2017.14.2.166. Epub 2017 Mar 6.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Characteristics of Parricide Offenders with Schizophrenia in Korea

Sang Yeop Lee  1 , Myung Ho Lim  2 , Jangkyu Lee  3 , Geumsook Shim  3 , Yeon Kim  2 , Jin Ah Do  4 , Soo Jung Lee  5 , Jong Hyuck Choi  1 , Jae Woo Lee  1
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Characteristics of Parricide Offenders with Schizophrenia in Korea

Sang Yeop Lee et al. Psychiatry Investig. 2017 Mar.

Abstract

Objective: This study aims to examine the personality characteristics in parricide offenders, by using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test, which is commonly used in clinical medicine.

Methods: A total of 73 parricide offenders with schizophrenia who were admitted to National Forensic Hospital in Gongju city between September 2014 and February 2015, and 104 comparison schizophrenia patients who had been admitted to Dankook University Hospital in Cheonan city the same hospital, completed the Korean version of the MMPI.

Results: The parricide offender group showed significantly higher on L, F, Hs, Hy and Pd than the comparison group. The result of the regression analysis indicated that Pd and Si significantly increased the odd ratio of the sexual offender group by 2.77 times and 0.32 times, respectively (p=0.029 and p=0.023). The offenders of parricide may have developed the following characteristics: hypochondriasis, hysteria and psychopathic deviate.

Conclusion: These results suggested that the psychopatholgy in the offenders of parricide might be different, compared to the control group.

Keywords: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Offenders of parricide; Psychopathology; Schizophrenia.

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