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A Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Study

Pamela K. Peters, RN; Wendell M. Swenson, PhD; Donald W. Mulder, MD

Arch Neurol. 1978;35(5):321-322.

Abstract
• A comparison of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles of 21 men and 17 women who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with the profiles of 50,500 general medical patients showed no marked deviations. The validating scales of the men and the women were similar to those of the general medical population. There was no evidence of increased defensiveness in the group with ALS, as measured by either the L or the K scale, when compared with the general medical population. Individual patient interviews also showed no characteristic personality profile for ALS patients.

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Neurology (Ms Peters and Dr Mulder) and Psychiatry and Psychology (Dr Swenson), Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 11, 1977.

Reprint requests to Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55901 (Dr Swenson).

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