MMPI differentiation of panic disorder patients from other psychiatric outpatients.

Abstract

A variety of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) techniques were used to determine differences in psychopathology between 60 outpatient panic disorder patients (PDPs) and 60 demographically matched psychiatric controls (PCs). An empirically constructed panic disorder (Pan) scale correctly classified 72% of PDPs and PCs in the cross-validation sample and 83% of the combined samples, suggesting potential clinical utility and the need for further validation