Personality of mothers of substance-dependent patients

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Table 1 Comparison between Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores of patient’s mothers and control

	Patient mothers (No. = 20)								Control mothers (No. =35)								Significance
	<45		45–55		55–70		>70		<45		45–55		55–70		>70
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Hypochondriasis	2	10	8	40	9	45	1	5	7	20	12	34	15	42.9	1	2.9	0.785
Depression	2	10	1	5	9	45	8	40	6	17.1	8	22.9	20	57	1	2.9	0.003
Hysteria	4	20	3	15	9	45	4	20	6	17.1	14	40	15	42.9	0	0	0.022
Psychopathic deviance	6	30	3	15	10	50	1	5	14	40	10	28.6	11	31.4	0	0	0.237
Masculinity–femininity	4	20	8	40	8	40	–	–	5	14.3	13	37.1	17	48.6	–	–	0.784
Paranoia	5	25	2	10	9	45	4	20	6	17.1	14	40	14	40	1	2.9	0.036
Psychasthenia	4	20	11	55	5	15	–	–	16	45.7	15	42.9	4	11.4	–	–	0.126
Schizophrenia	6	30	5	25	7	35	2	10	15	42.9	11	31.4	9	25.7	0	0	0.203
Hypomania	10	50	4	20	6	30	–	–	18	51.4	12	43.3	5	14.3	–	–	0.291
Social introversion	4	20	5	25	11	55	–	–	3	8.6	15	42.9	17	48.6	–	–	0.283

Table 2 Correlation between mother’s Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores and Addiction Severity Index (ASI)

MMPI	ASI	Medical status	Employment/support status	Drug/alcohol use	Legal status	Family/social relation	Family history	Psychiatric status
Hypochondriasis	Pearson’s correlation	−0.043	−0.103	−0.188	0.171	0.095	−0.016	−0.258
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.857	0.667	0.427	0.471	0.689	0.946	0.272
Depression	Pearson’s correlation	−0.010	0.038	−0.277	0.192	0.196	−0.388	−0.190
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.967	0.875	0.237	0.418	0.409	0.091	0.422
Hysteria	Pearson’s correlation	−0.088	0.099	−0.060	0.507	0.224	0.076	0.109
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.711	0.679	0.801	0.023	0.343	0.751	0.648
Psychopathic deviance	Pearson’s correlation	0.079	0.016	−0.073	0.519	0.240	−0.197	−0.084
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.741	0.946	0.758	0.019	0.308	0.404	0.723
Masculinity–femininity	Pearson’s correlation	0.130	−0.153	−0.224	0.234	0.010	−0.195	−0.379
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.584	0.521	0.342	0.321	0.967	0.410	0.099
Paranoia	Pearson’s correlation	−0.028	0.057	−0.129	0.199	0.199	−0.059	−0.080
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.906	0.812	0.589	0.401	0.401	0.805	0.736
Psychasthenia	Pearson’s correlation	0.043	−0.247	−0.104	0.217	0.143	−0.171	−0.137
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.857	0.293	0.664	0.358	0.547	0.472	0.563
Schizophrenia	Pearson’s correlation	−0.146	−0.199	−0.017	0.029	0.040	−0.038	−0.167
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.538	0.401	0.944	0.903	0.868	0.875	0.481
Hypomania	Pearson’s correlation	0.023	0.075	−0.203	0.203	0.166	−0.115	−0.082
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.922	0.753	0.391	0.391	0.484	0.629	0.732
Social introversion	Pearson’s correlation	−0.301	−0.325	−0.582	−0.029	0.013	−0.622	−0.391
	sig. (2-tailed)	0.197	0.120	0.007	0.904	0.957	0.003	0.088