Three Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory short forms, the Mini-Mult, Faschingbauer's 166, and the MMPI-168, which were constructed by different methodologies, were compared on a sample of 1,028 psychiatric patients. Results of this study seriously question the use of MMPI short forms for clinical interpretation. (Author)

The general findings support the utility of direct compared to indirect approaches to personality measurement. (Author)

When criteria for the personality characteristics were provided by friends' ratings, the direct self-report measures were consistently superior to the indirect. When criteria consisted of experts' judgments, and the study design was biased to favor the indirect measures, these still were not superior to direct self-reports. (Author)

This study was undertaken to test Dahlstrom's hypothesis that the clinical utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) could be improved through the use of dimensionally pure personality trait and psychopathological state scales to supplant the present dimensionally complex clinical and validity scales. Results failed to…

Inmates were administered the revised Activity Preference Questionnaire, the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16 PF), the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Sensation-Seeking Scale, and the Personal Opinion Study. Inspection of correlations and factors associated with indices…

The purpose of this study was to compare Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) results of 53 adolescent poor sleepers with a matched control group of 53 good sleepers. Adolescents, like adults, show a highly significant relationship between neurotic personality functioning and poor sleep. (Author)

Compares results of seven independent studies that have attempted to empirically identify the behavioral or symptom correlates of individual Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory clinical scales for psychiatric patients. Symptom correlates, in general, tend to provide construct validity for the "traditional" interpretation of…

Compares the MMPI and Mini-Mult data using a sample of narcotics users. Results indicate that when correlations between corresponding MMPI and Mini-Mult scales are used, there is good correspondence; with respect to clinical evaluation and high point correspondence, there is low accuracy. (Author/PC)

Compared the behavioral correlates of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 4-3 high-point pair and the Overcontrolled-Hostility scale in a sample of university psychology clinic outpatients (N=97). Behavioral correlates of two groups of outpatients were more similar to each other than they were to the group of outpatient controls.…

The authors compared the ability of 3 commonly used measures of risk of future offending in a sample of 315 mentally disordered offenders discharged from a medium-secure unit in the United Kingdom. The authors explored whether the same criminogenic factors that predict recidivism in the general population also predict recidivism in mentally…

The Faschingbauer Abbreviated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (FAM) was developed using cluster analysis and was compared to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and other short forms. On code-type correspondence, configural classifications, profile validities, and scale elevations, the FAM compared favorably to a…

The correspondence between the Minnesota MMPI and the Mini-Mult in terms of similar clinical decisions has been examined in several recent reports. The purpose of the present study was to extend the comparative data between the Mini-Mult and the standard MMPI to include two samples of alcoholics. (Author)

Eysenck's PEN Inventory and Lanyon's Psychological Screening Inventory were given to groups of male and female American undergraduates from a state university. A factorial analysis of the intercorrelations showed that three major factors could account for the bulk of correlations among the nine differently labeled characteristics covered by the…

Two samples drawn from an adult outpatient psychiatric clinic and from a child guidance clinic were administered the MMPI. Results indicated that child guidance parents appeared to be more similar to parents of children without behavior problems than to adult outpatient parents. (Author/PC)

Combat and noncombat veterans seeking treatment for substance abuse were compared on demographic, family, and military variables; ratings on Figley's postmilitary problems list; traditional measures of personality (MMPI); childhood and present Family Environment scales. In combat-noncombat comparisons, combat veterans rated significantly more…