In the current investigation, the authors examined the diagnostic construct validity of the "Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form" (MMPI-2-RF) in a patient sample. All participants were diagnosed via the "Structured Clinical Interview" for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I/P). The data set used in this…

This study investigated the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Revised (MMPI-2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) with regard to each instrument's utility for discriminating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from depression and social phobia in a…

Computerized adaptive testing in personality assessment can improve efficiency by significantly reducing the number of items administered to answer an assessment question. Two approaches have been explored for adaptive testing in computerized personality assessment: item response theory and the countdown method. In this article, the authors…

Employed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to study similarities and differences of mean profiles of anorexic patients, bulimic patients, morbidly obese outpatients, and subjects in a matched control group. The results indicated that there was no significant difference in the overall profiles of the three experimental groups, but…

Discriminated among four groups of male opiate-addicted reformatory inmates (N=193) according to degree of criminal violence using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Results showed that discriminant analysis was moderately successful for classifying Bodily Violent and Nonbodily Violent groups on the basis of their MMPI scores.…

Administered Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to 401 adjudicated male juvenile offenders. Identified 28 MMPI scales that best described and discriminated between high and low levels of recidivism, crime severity, assault, and property offenses. Psychopathic Deviance, Amorality, Authority Problems, Social Responsibility, and…

The relationship of parent personality to child psychopathology has been investigated in numerous studies over the past three decades, using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). To investigate response patterns of both parents and offspring, the MMPI responses of 197 families with adolescents entering inpatient or outpatient…

Calculated two-point Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory codes for 403 convicted sex offenders, yielding 43 code types. Sex offenders showed more 4-5 and 4-8 profiles than did other prisoners. Rapists showed more profiles associated with assaultiveness. There were significant differences in code frequencies between incestuous biological…

Reviews research concerning the usefulness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in identification of alcoholics' personality characteristics. Discusses scales, profile configurations, and item analyses. Finds no single personality type characteristic of all alcoholics, although six cluster types occur with consistency. Alcoholics…

Shows how an empirical profile matching procedure applied to the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) of a client can be used to quantify the degree to which the client's personality profile is representative of a drug abusing group. Supplementary techniques show how reliable this judgment is and isolate reasons for discrepancies.…

This book provides step-by-step procedures for clinical personality interpretation to help mental health professionals determine the psychological health of their clients, determine maladjustment and problem behaviors, and reach a diagnosis. Each of the four chapters is devoted to one of the four key personality tests. These are: (1)…

The usefulness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) was examined for 162 delinquent boys in a state training school who were compared with 805 nondelinquent male adolescents and the original MMPI sample of 7,783 male adolescents. The most useful scales are discussed. (SLD)

Evaluated medical and psychological data collected over 36 years on 280 men to identify personality characteristics and attitudes possibly predictive of development of coronary heart disorder (CHD). Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Hostility scores did not predict CHD, nor did 35-item scale derived from MMPI items judged to…

The Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) is a dimensional descriptive system for personality and its disorders. The development of the scales, based on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), is described. Results with 3 clinical samples (total 1,680), a college sample of 2,928, and a normative sample of 2,567 support the…

The meaning of low scores on some Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) scales was examined by comparing therapists' descriptors of 669 mental health patients with high, normal, or low scores on each scale. Results show that for most scales both high and low scores provide potentially important information. (SLD)