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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

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