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Typical MMPI-2 Profiles of Multiple-DWI Individuals

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We identified the typical personality profile of individuals with multiple driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) offenses using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2). Multiple DWI offenders were recruited from outpatient clinics between January 2009 and September 2013. All participants were administered the MMPI-2 and also completed a questionnaire soliciting demographic information. A hierarchical cluster analysis was performed using Ward’s method. The multiple-offenders-I group (n = 9) had relatively high (although still within normal) scores on the D and Pd scales. The multiple-offenders-II group (n = 50) had low scores on both the Ma and Si scales and a V-shaped profile on the validity scales. Some multiple offenders may have poorer emotional adjustment, characterized by tendencies toward psychopathic deviance, mania, and depression, as well as psychopathological characteristics typically associated with patients with alcohol-use disorder.

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Author In Hee Shim, Author Hee-Ryung Wang, and Author Won-Myong Bahk declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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All procedures were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committees on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Because this was a retrospective study and the data were obtained by routine psychiatric examination, the board determined that informed consent was unnecessary.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Cancer Center, Dongnam Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences, Busan, Korea

    In Hee Shim

  2. Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

    Hee-Ryung Wang & Won-Myong Bahk

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Shim, I.H., Wang, HR. & Bahk, WM. Typical MMPI-2 Profiles of Multiple-DWI Individuals. Int J Ment Health Addiction 14, 149–153 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-015-9577-7

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