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MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)

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.

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MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)

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  1. MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory)

  2. 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.

  3. 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)

  4. MMPI: Validity Scales • Cannot say (?) scale • Lie (L) scale • F (Infrequency) scale • K (defensiveness) scale • TRIN • VRIN

  5. 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)

  6. MMPI: Scoring • Computerized and hand scoring • Creating the profile • Codetypes

  7. MMPI: Codetypes • 12/21 • 13/31 • 24/42 • 27/72 • 49/94 • 68/86 • 78/87 • 89/98

  8. 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

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