Abstract
Relationships between clinical ratings of psychiatric symptomatology and subjective patient responses to 166 selected MMPI items are examined. The 20 MMPI items found to correlate most highly with clinical ratings of anxiety, depressive mood and other depression-related variables are considered in detail. Subjective correlates of clinical ratings of anxiety concern effects of the anxiety on the individual and not the subjective experience of anxiety per se. Subjective correlates of depressive mood concern perceptions of that mood. Clinical motor retardation is subjectively associated with emotional withdrawal and denial of personal awareness more than with the physical and motor manifestations of retardation.
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