The purpose of this study is to find out psychological traits of North Korean refugees through MMPI. The variables related to the psychological traits of North Korean refugees included sex, age, experience of compulsive repatriation, unit of family or...
The purpose of this study is to find out psychological traits of North Korean refugees through MMPI. The variables related to the psychological traits of North Korean refugees included sex, age, experience of compulsive repatriation, unit of family or individual, refugee's motivation.
The hypothesis of study are as follows; First, psychological traits through MMPI is significant differences in the North Korean refugee's sex. Second, psychological traits through MMPI is significant differences in the North Korean refugee's age. Third, psychological traits through MMPI is significant differences in the North Korean refugee's experience of compulsive repatriation. Fourth, psychological traits through MMPI is significant differences in the North Korean refugee's family or individual unit. The Fifth psychological traits through MMPI is significant differences in the North Korean refugee's motivation.
In this study, MMPI test was taken among 821 North Korean refugees in Hanawon from 2001 to 2003 for the personal counseling or group test. They examined the difference among those groups using one-way analysis of variance and post-hoc analysis of Scheffe verification. For statistics, SPSS 10.0 for the window was used.
The results of examining psychological trait is as follows; First, the group of woman scored higher than the group of man on the L, Hs, Mf subscales and the group of man scored higher than the group of woman on the D, Pd, Pt, Si subscales (p<.05) on MMPI. Second, the group of forty scored higher than the group of twenty on the L scales and the group of teenager scored higher than the group of sixty on the K subscales on the MMPI scale. The group of fifty scored higher than the group of teenager, twenty on the Hs subscales and scored higher than the group of twenty on the D subscales, and scored higher than the group of teenager on the Hy subscales. the group of twenty scored higher than the group of teenager on the Ma subscales (p<.05). Third, the unit of individual scored higher than the group of unit of family on the F, Pd, Sc, Ma subscales. On the other hand, scored lower than unit of family on the Si subscale (p<.05). Fourth, the experience of compulsive repatriation scored higher than the not experience of compulsive repatriation on the Ma subscales (p<.05) on MMPI scale. The Fifth, Refugees' motivation is not significant difference on the MMPI.