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1 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Overview, Content, and Interpretation HISTORY AND OVERVIEW Original MMPI Development Hathaway & McKinley, 1943 Empirical criterion keying Normals Clinical groups Comparisons Added scales MMPI Development Validity Scales:? L F K A Success? Original purpose of MMPI A problem? Solution MMPI-2 MMPI s downfall Old, standardization, wording & item content, limited scope Revision Form AX Restandardization Final version (1989) Ongoing VALIDITY SCALES Good Results Attentiveness Honesty Compliance Scales for Content-NonResponsiveness?: 30+ (liberal) VRIN TRIN Scales for Content-Responsiveness F VH: 100+ IP, 90+ OP, 80+ NonClin H: IP, OP, NonClin MH: IP, OP, NC Low: <54 IP & OP, <39 NC 1

2 Fb High: 110+ Clin; 90+ NC Fb > F by 30T Fp > < 70 L Clin, NC Nonclinical Everybody Everybody < 50 K > <40 S NC < 70 < 40 Other Validity Scales FBS: 28+, (raw) F-K: 9? 11? Ds S-O Mp Esd Wsd Od Steps to check validity Item completion Consistency Over/underreporting CLINICAL SCALES & SUBSCALES The Harris-Lingoes Subscales Heterogeneity Rationally derived Item Overlap Reliability 2

3 Validity General Interpretation Scale 1 Hypochondriasis (Hs) < Scale 2 Depression (D) >70 Scale 2 Subscales D1: Subjective Depression D2: Psychomotor Retardation D3: Physical Malfunctioning D4: Mental Dullness D5: Brooding Scale 3 Hysteria (Hy) >80T Scale 3 Subscales Hy1: Denial of Social Anxiety Hy2: Need for Affection Hy3: Lassitude-Malaise Hy4: Somatic Complaints Hy5: Inhibition of Aggression Scale 4 Psychopathic Deviate (Pd) >75T Scale 4 Subscales Pd1: Familial Discord Pd2: Authority Problems Pd3: Social Imperturbability Pd4: Social Alienation Pd5: Self-Alienation Scale 5 Masculinity-Femininity (Mf) Scale 6 Paranoia (Pa) Scale 6 Subscales Pa1: Persecutory Ideas Pa2: Poignancy Pa3: Naiveté Scale 7 Psychasthenia (Pt) Scale 8 Schizophrenia (Sc) 75+ Scale 8 Subscales Sc1: Social Alienation Sc2: Emotional Alienation Sc3: Lack of Ego Mastery, Cognitive Sc4: Lack of Ego Mastery, Conative Sc5: Lack of Ego Mastery, Defective Inhibition Sc6: Bizarre Sensory Experiences Scale 9 Hypomania (Ma) 80+ 3

4 Scale 9 Subscales Ma1: Amorality Ma2: Psychomotor Accelaration Ma3: Imperterbability Ma4: Ego Inflation Scale 0 Social Introversion (Si) Scale 0 Subscales Si1: Shyness/Self-Consciousness Si2: Social Avoidance Si3: Self/Other-Alienation CODE TYPES Types of Codetypes High point 2 point 3 point Considerations Possibilities vs. Empirically Supported 2 point Codetypes 1-2/ / / / / / / / /7-2 3 point Codetypes 123/213/ / /273/ /274/ / /486/648/684/846/ /487/748/784/847/ /867 Interpreting Codetypes Caution Tentative phrasing Correlates: relationship Corroboration Relativism vs. Absolutism Non-codetype Configurations Scales 1, 2, and 3 Scales 3 and 4 CONTENT SCALES The Wiggins Revision 4

5 Reliability & Validity General Interpretation Strategy Components ANX FRS FRS 1 & 2 OBS DEP DEP 1-4 HEA HEA 1-3 BIZ BIZ 1 & 2 ANG ANG 1 & 2 CYN CYN 1 & 2 ASP ASP 1 & 2 TPA TPA 1 & 2 LSE LSE 1 & 2 SOD SOD 1 & 2 FAM FAM 1 & 2 WRK TRT TRT 1 & 2 SUPPLEMENTARY SCALES Supplementary Scales A: Anxiety R: Repression Es: Ego Strength Do: Dominance Re: Social Responsibility Supplementary Scales Mt: College Maladjustment Pk: PTSD MDS: Marital Distress Ho: Hostility O-H: Overcontrolled-Hostility Supplementary Scales Mac-R: MacAndrew Alcoholism AAS: Addiction Acknowledgement APS: Addiction Potential 5

6 PSY-5 Scales General Info AGGR PSYC DISC NEGE INTR RESTRUCTURED CLINICAL SCALES RC General Interpretation Guidelines Use Clinical vs RC Cutoffs Overlap RC Scales RCd RC1 RC2 RC3 RC4 RC6 RC7 RC8 RC9 RESTRUCTURED FORM MMPI-2-RF MMPI-2-RF 50 Scales 8 Validity 3 Higher-Order 9 RC 23 Specific Problems 2 Interest PSY-5 What to do with the MMPI? Overwhelming Approach Empirical Support Inclusive Context Labels Version Selection Availability Benefits 6

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