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Millon (1987) assessed the accuracy of the cutoff score of BR 75 on a sample of 256
patients that closely matched the sample used in constructing the MCMI-1. He found that
the percent of correct diagnostic classifications ranged from 82% to 94%. Thus, a majority
of this sample of ex-cultists could be classified as having, with a high degree of probability,
a dependent personality disorder and an anxiety disorder.
Another general interpretive rule with regard to the MCMI-I is that a BR score above 60 may
have value in providing diagnostic information, while scales below 60 as a rule are not
useful in providing diagnostic information, although low scores do not mean the absence of
the particular characteristic or symptom. Thus, this sample of ex-cultists can be
characterized as having abnormal levels of distress in several of the personality and clinical
symptom scales. Of those subjects completing the MCMI-I, 89% had BR‟s of 75 or better on
at least one of the first eight scales. Furthermore, 106 out of the 111 subjects (95%) who
completed the MCMI at Time I had at least one BR score of 75 or comp higher on one of the
MCMI scales.
Millon (1987) assessed the accuracy of the cutoff score of BR 75 on a sample of 256
patients that closely matched the sample used in constructing the MCMI-1. He found that
the percent of correct diagnostic classifications ranged from 82% to 94%. Thus, a majority
of this sample of ex-cultists could be classified as having, with a high degree of probability,
a dependent personality disorder and an anxiety disorder.
Another general interpretive rule with regard to the MCMI-I is that a BR score above 60 may
have value in providing diagnostic information, while scales below 60 as a rule are not
useful in providing diagnostic information, although low scores do not mean the absence of
the particular characteristic or symptom. Thus, this sample of ex-cultists can be
characterized as having abnormal levels of distress in several of the personality and clinical
symptom scales. Of those subjects completing the MCMI-I, 89% had BR‟s of 75 or better on
at least one of the first eight scales. Furthermore, 106 out of the 111 subjects (95%) who
completed the MCMI at Time I had at least one BR score of 75 or comp higher on one of the
MCMI scales.
