[A contrast between the MMPI with the System Check List 90].

This study tested 131 patients with psychoses and contrasted the MMPI with the SCL-90. It was found that the nine groups of elemental symptoms in the SCL-90 was highly related with the corresponding symptoms in the MMPI. However, the relatively of groups in the two scales is different in the three diseases of schizophrenia, depression and neurosis. It was expressed that the three mental diseases possessed different psychopathologic characters. The result corresponded to clinical experience and also showed that SCL-90 was a self-rating scale with higher validity and spread of the scale was feasible.