About an experience of MMPI test adaptation to Tunisian population and its practice

Author: Jaoua A, Jarraya A

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PSYCHOLOGIE MEDICALE, 25, 83-83.
Our starting point is a thesis submitted for medical degree in 1983; that work was initially devoted to MMPI-test adaptation for tunisian population. But many difficulties prevented our carrying out such a project. So, our work thesis was performed and submitted for degree only in order to be an introduction to the tunisian adaptation of the MMPI-test. Howbeit, we made use of arabised items of tllis MMI'I test, un clinical practice during eight years. In such a periode, we performed a comparative plotting between clinical psychiatric diagnosis, and the arabised cllart outline of the MMPI test for two hundreds (200) patient cases. That cases were very carefully selected upon their clinical (psychiatric) diagnosis evidence. The result is a total correlation between the psychiatric diagnosis and the arabised MMPI test ouline in our finding, for 66% of cases, and partial correlation in 12,5% of cases. Moreover, in 3% of our cases, we found divergent results between clinical an MMPI-test approach; but farther psychiatric following up confirmed the MMPI-test outline finding. It seems to us that, such a test may have a predictive diagnosis ability in about 80% of cases, when regarding our results. We give an account of these first finding of our work, as an introduction to MMPI practice in Maghrebian areFurther investigations are however needed, in order to assess our finding for correlation with psychiatric diagnosis, and for predictive val-le ot the MMPI-test outline, with arabised items, in maghrebian way.