MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)
MMPI: Development Developed in 1943 by Hathaway and McKinley Empirical, criterion-keying approach to development The most researched personality test (over 12,000 articles, translated into 150 languages) Revised and restandardized in 1989.
MMPI-2: Description 567 True/False questions Validity scales Basic clinical scales (10) Content scales MMPI-2 content scales Harris-Lingoes subscales Supplementary scales (e.g., Ego strength, MAC)
MMPI: Validity Scales Cannot say (?) scale Lie (L) scale F (Infrequency) scale K (defensiveness) scale TRIN VRIN
MMPI: Clinical Scales Scale 1: Hypochondriasis (Hs) Scale 2: Depression (D) Scale 3: Hysteria (Hy) Scale 4: Psychopathic Deviate (Pd) Scale 5: Masculinity-Femininity (Mf) Scale 6: Paranoia (Pa) Scale 7: Psychasthenia (Pt) Scale 8: Schizophrenia (Sc) Scale 9: Hypomania (Ma) Scale 0: Social Introversion (Si)
MMPI: Scoring Computerized and hand scoring Creating the profile Codetypes
MMPI: Codetypes 12/21 13/31 24/42 27/72 49/94 68/86 78/87 89/98
MMPI-A A version of the MMPI designed for adolescents Appropriate for adolescents between 14 and 18 Interpretation similar to MMPI-2, but better norms and additional scales Less research supporting codetype interpretation