To examine the tendency towards the emotional disorders in undergraduate
students, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory was administered to two
groups, the normal undergraduated student group and the clients of Student Guidance
Center at KPN...
To examine the tendency towards the emotional disorders in undergraduate
students, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory was administered to two
groups, the normal undergraduated student group and the clients of Student Guidance
Center at KPNU. The MMPI profiles for both groups were compared.
The results are as following;
1) Overall mean scores for both groups were under normal range.
2) Individual profiles deviated from normal range were closely examined; more than
33% of the normal undergraduate students and 73% of the clients of Student
Guidance Center had abnormal profiles.
3) Individuals having abnormal profiles manifested problems that might be related
to depression and anxiety disorders. Most of them had neurotic tendency,
but some showed psychotic tendency.
4) Those with abnormal profiles seem that they need to take therapeutic intervention,
and those approach will beæfit them in terms of alleviating the
symptoms.
5) Considering the size of the proportion of students with emotional problems,
Student Guidance Center in every college should have specialists who can
deal with emotional problems of students.