Reappraisal of Health Questionnaire Checking with Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Yatabe-Guilford Personality Inventory

Abstract

Recently, concept and methodology of multiphasic mass screening examinations have developed and the need for application in school health practice has increased a great deal. Such being the case, the author felt the necessity to analyze the correlation between complaints expressed by subjective insight and the personalities investigated by psychological methods.
Okayama Medical Index (O.M.I.) has been adopted as a health questionnaire, and those having many complaints, or those having little or no complaints according to this questionnaire were investigated by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and Yatabe-Guilford Personality Inventory (Y-G).
The results were as follows:
1. The students of senior high school were verified to be mentally healthy and suitiable as subjects for study purposes. The students of junior high school were not as suitable as examinees for MMPI testing.
2. Those having little or no complaints by O.M.I. include persons of high score in Pa and Sc. Those having many complaints include persons of high score in neurotic scales such as Hs, Hy and Pt. Though persons of many complaints can be judged as neurotic, there is much doubt as to whether or not healthy persons with little or no complaints can be accurately evaluated.
3. Those having little or no complaints by O. M. I. include many persons possessing high levels of social adaptability as well as emotional stability. On the contrary, those having many complaints included persons with low levels of social adaptability and emtional instability. However, it cannot be concluded that persons having little or no complaints are always mentally healthy. Further observation and investigation is required.
4. The investigations of the author reveal that complaints as expressed by subjective insight correlate with personality characteristics.