Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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Overview of the MMPI-2. Use for adult clinical patients with psychiatric symptoms. Application of the test in various settings including psychiatric and/or medical settings, court room and business settings. Strengths and weaknesses of the instrument. Review of the MMPI-2 psychometric, developmental and structural properties. Concludes the test gives a comprehensive assessment. Some corrections needed.

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"Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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This paper presented an overview of the MMPI-2, the restandardized version of the original MMPI instrument designed to assess adult psychopathology. It was noted that the test is comprehensive in nature consisting of 567 true-false items which are assessed in terms of 10 basic clinical scales, 7 validity scales, 15 Content Scales, 27 content component scales, 18 supplementary scales, 3 social introversion scales, 28 Harris-Lingoes subscales and 10 special or setting-specific indices. It provides seven report options.


The MMPI-2 is most frequently used for clinical patients with psychiatric symptoms and is applied in a variety of settings including psychiatric and/or medical settings, court room..."

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