Reviewed clinical usefulness of obvious and subtle Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory subscales in the detection of malingering. Comparison of obvious-subtle differences indicative of malingering (Greene's criteria) and observed differences on random-response protocols were found to be indistinguishable. (Author/JAC)

Methodological considerations in conducting research on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), the most widely used clinical personality instrument, are reviewed, with reference to the original MMPI and the version for adolescents (MMPI-A). Potential pitfalls in personality testing and personality assessment research are…

Compares highly educated professional blacks with blacks whose education and occupational skills are more representative of blacks-in-general to see whether the former have distinctive personality characteristics compatible with marginality. (Author/RK)

This study's aim was to assess the validity of naive subjects' implicit personality theories, the correspondence among the theories, and the influence of social desirability on them. High school girls classified the items from the MMPI Psychopathic Deviate scale into clusters representing different traits. These clusters agreed closely with the…

The present study investigated the utility of the MMPI as a predictor of success or failure of an alcoholic sample in a behavioral outpatient alcoholism treatment program. (Author)

Compared two sets of variables (one known to reflect psychopathology and the other to reflect certain normal personality traits) to determine whether they overlapped in both normal and abnormal samples. Findings are taken as indicative that personality patterns remain contiguous with psychological symptomatology regardless of the presence or lack…

Demonstrates the consequences on total misdiagnosis rates of using conventional (fixed) rather than flexible (Bayesian) rules when using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in diagnosis. Concludes that the range of base rates and the separation of distributions of normal and abnormal scores affect the difference in the misdiagnosis…

Performed a principal axes factor anlaysis on Mini-Mult item data obtained from 249 medical and psychiatric patients. Six factors were extracted. Nonoverlapping summative scales were constructed and their reliabilities evaluated. The scales were recommended for applications in which it is desirable to avoid excessive item overlap. (JAC)

The MMPI profiles of 359 correctional officer applicants were cluster analyzed, which resulted in the identification of five relatively homogeneous subgroups. The implications of the findings for occupationally adaptive and maladaptive correctional officer behavior were discussed. (Editor)

The comparative psychological well-being of transsexual females who sought sexual reassignment surgery to harmonize their anatomy with their male gender was investigated. (Editor)

The present study was undertaken as a reanalysis of data collected and reported by Lair and Biddy to determine whether the personality dimensions of denial or anxiety, as measured by the MMPI, predict subsequent open heart surgery mortality differently by sex. (Author)

Racial bias in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was investigated by comparing responses of Black and White compulsive heroin users on both empirically derived validity and clinical scales and intuitively constructed content scales. The results suggest that ethnicity is an influential subject background characteristic.…

Despite extensive literature on the impact of physical impairment upon personality, there is a dearth of objective data with adolescent age groups. This research attempts to determine if there are personality differences between groups of adolescents with observable, yet dissimilar physical disabilities. (Author/RK)

A twin-based analysis of personality inventory scales yields information relevant to construct validity. Criteria for construct validity derived from adolescent twin statistics are illustrated with Wiggins' MMPI Content Scales. A type of discriminant validity indicates that some scales are not distinct in terms of influences of familial…

In view of a lack of objective personality data on adjustment problems of impaired adolescents, this research attempts to determine whether significant personality differences would be reflected by the MMPI between a group of impaired and nonimpaired adolescents. (Author/RK)