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PERSONALITY INVENTORY
MMPI
• Original instrument developed in late 1930’s
• Most widely used and extensively researched
of all psychological tests
• REVISED IN 1951 by Hathaway and McKinley
• 1989--MMPI-2
MMPI
• Popularity of the instrument due to 3 aspects
of its development
– Multiphasic nature of the test
– Formal assessment of test taking attitude
– Empirical basis for item selection
MMPI CLINICAL SCALE DEVELOPMENT
• authored by Hathaway and McKinley at the
university of Minnesota hospitals
• Selected a pool of over 1000 items from a
variety of sources, psych texts, interviews, and
their own clinical experience
• Deleted duplicate items and eliminated those
not useful for their purposes leaving a pool of
550 items
MMPI Introduction
• It has 4 validity and 9 clinical scales
• Age range 16 years and upward
• The only intellectual requirement is that the subject is
able to read
• Time required from administration varies on an
average it takes between 30 to 90 mins
• Items presented as first person declarative statements
to which subject responded either
– true
– false or
– cannot say
MMPI VALIDITY SCALES
1. The Question Score (?)
• It is not actually a scale but simply the number of
test items marked as cannot say