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. 2020 Aug 18;17(8):840–849. doi: 10.30773/pi.2020.0102

Table 4.

Mean, SD, F scores of MMPI-2 for both groups of 125 participants

Variable NSA (N=83) SA (N=42) F p-value
Validity scale
 VRIN 41.94±8.11 43.00±7.98 0.933 0.396
 TRIN 55.13±4.54 56.62±5.45 1.294 0.278
 F 59.33±14.43 61.64±12.00 3.775 0.026
 F(B) 60.78±14.46 66.29±10.06 6.247 0.003
 F(P) 51.06±11.39 53.90±9.45 3.071 0.050
 L 41.02±6.55 44.24±8.28 7.102 0.001
 K 40.48±8.51 38.67±6.37 2.195 0.116
 S 39.83±9.24 37.79±7.29 3.374 0.037
Clinical scale
 Hypochondriasis 58.43±11.51 61.55±10.69 1.890 0.155
 Depression 66.37±14.28 64.76±12.38 0.765 0.468
 Hysteria 59.01±9.40 60.36±8.23 0.809 0.448
 Psychopathic deviate 65.42±11.78 62.33±10.72 1.659 0.195
 Masculinity-femininity 50.40±11.49 49.26±9.61 6.613 0.002
 Paranoia 64.28±16.01 67.43±14.29 3.804 0.025
 Psychasthenia 65.30±15.39 67.60±11.91 4.720 0.011
 Schizophrenia 62.70±14.68 65.26±11.48 3.853 0.024
 Hypomania 54.23±11.50 57.48±12.57 2.522 0.084
 Social introversion 61.93±15.26 62.17±13.87 2.143 0.122

Values are presented as mean±SD. MMPI-2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, SD: standard deviation, NSA: non-suicide attempters, SA: suicide attempters, VRIN: variable response inconsistency, TRIN: true response inconsistency, F: infrequency, F(B): back infrequency, F(P): infrequency psychopathology, L: lie, K: correction, S: superlative self-presentation