Objective configural rules for discriminating psychotic from neurotic MMPI profiles.

Abstract

This study attempted t o extend the applicability of the Midi-Rlult to psychiat,ric inpatients. While high correspondence of group mean data and high comparability in identifying valid and invalid profiles resulted, analysis of individual profile pairs revealed a lack of correspondence with respect to scale high point codes and general profile elevations. The Midi-Mult seems to have limited applicability with hospitalized psychiatric patients. ARMENTROUT, J. A. Correspondence of the MMPI and 3lini-Mult in a college population. ARMENTROUT, J. A. and ROUZEK, I). L. Utility of the Mini-Mult with adolescents. .I. cons&. J . din. Psychol., 1970, 26, 493-495. din. Psychol., 1970, 34, 450. 3. 4. 5. 6. DAHLSTROM, W. G. Personal communication, 1972. U E .~N , E. F. A lengthened Mini: the Midi-Mult. J. clin. Psychol., 1972, 28, 68-71. HARTFORD, T., LUBETKIN, B. and ALPKRT, G. Comparison of the standard MMPI and the Mini-Mult in a psychiatric outpatient clinic. J . consult. din. Psychol., 1972, 39, 243-245. HARTMAN, G. and XOBERTSON, M. Comparison of the Mini-Mult and the MMPI in a community mental health agency. Proceedings of the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, 1972, 7 , Sd-34. Objective configural rules for discriminating MMPI profiles in a psychiatric population. J . d i n . Psychol., 1964, 20, 157-159. KINCANNON, J. C. Prediction of the standard MMPI scale scores from 71 items: the Mini-Mult.

Comparability of Two-Point High-Point Code Patterns From Original MMPI Norms to MMPI-2 Norms for the Restandardization Sample

“…For terminological clarity, it would be far better to continue to designate the code groups formed on the basis of high points or high-point pairs simply as code patterns, and restrict the term code type to collections of code patterns like those published by Lachar (1974), Marks, Seeman, and Haller (1974), or Meehl and Dahlstrom (1960). There is little empirical justification for the imposition of any arbitrary elevation gap between the first and second or the second and third or third and fourth scales in the profile code.…”

Paul Everett Meehl: The cumulative record

“…For instance, he authored citation classics on learning theory (MacCorquodale & Meehl, 1948, 1953Meehl, 1945bMeehl, , 1950Meehl & MacCorquodale, 1951), objective personality assessment and diagnosis (Meehl, 1945a(Meehl, , 1945c(Meehl, , 1946McKinley, Hathaway, & Meehl, 1948), actuarially based (automated) test interpretation (Hathaway & Meehl, 1951;Meehl, 1956;Meehl & Dahlstrom, 1960), clinical versus statistical prediction (Meehl, 1954(Meehl, , 1956(Meehl, , 1957bDawes, Faust, & Meehl, 1989;Grove & Meehl, 1996), the etiology and phenomenology of schizophrenia (Meehl, 1962c(Meehl, , 1972(Meehl, , 1989d(Meehl, , 1990c, taxometric methods (Meehl, 1973a(Meehl, , 1992a(Meehl, , 1995(Meehl, , 1999(Meehl, , 2001(Meehl, , 2004Meehl & Golden, 1982;Waller & Meehl, 1998), psychoanalysis (Meehl, 1970c(Meehl, , 2 1983c(Meehl, , 1993, test validation and construct validity (Cronbach & Meehl, 1955), and the limits of statistical significance testing in theory appraisal (Meehl, 1967(Meehl, , 1978c(Meehl, , 1990a. We know of no other psychologist with such a diverse publication record.…”

Correlates of broad MMPI categories

“…Two recurring problems in research with the MMPI are the selection of relevant external criteria and the choice of method to express variation of the instrument to maximize prediction to non-test data. Two methods of dealing with the first question are the prediction of broad diagnostic categories (e.g., Meehl & Dahlstrom, 1960) and the determination of specific empirical correlates of various score patterns (e.g., Lewandowski & Graham, 1972). Choice of method to relate MMPI variation to non-test data is wider, given the large variety of scales and score patterns.…”

“…Two approaches to this second question are provided by Goldberg (1965) and Welsh (1965). Goldberg demonstrated that a linear combination of MMPI scale scores was superior to Meehl and Dahlstrom's (1960) configural rules in discriminating profiles obtained from psychotic and neurotic samples. In subsequent work (Goldberg, 1972), he extended this approach to discriminating normal vs. deviant and sociopathic vs. psychiatric profiles and thus provided a sequential diagnostic classification system.…”