Recently there is a social need for mental health administration and this is receiving attention in Public Health Practice. Several methods using personality inventories or health questionniares have been used to meet such a need.
For the evaluation of these methods, the author used MMPI, translated and modified by Tokyo University and Sociometric testing. These were applied for use on 1206 male and 334 female students 15 or 16 years of age in 3 vocational high schools.
The results were as follows;
1. By group survey, questioning orally, MMPI was found to be valid as a mass examination.
2. Validity Scale (Fr) had high correlations to clinical scales, while Scale (F) did not reveal the correlation as Scale (Fr).
3. AS far as the correlation among scales, Scale (L), (6) and (8) were found to be independent. Scale (1), (2), (3), (4), (7), (10) showed high correlations. Scale (9) had different correlations in each group.
4. It was recognized that the mean profile of MMPI in each group had particular relation to the characteristics of that group.