The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory‐2: A Review

Duckworth, Jane C.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1991.tb02644.x

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“…Many respondents to the MMPI in recent years have been forced to ask examiners the meaning of such terms as drop the handkerchief (Duckworth, 1991a). Others have commented on the questions relating to religious beliefs and preferences and deportment in school or have puzzled over the meaning of other items (see Greene, 1991, p. 23, for illustrations).…”

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A perspective on developments in assessing psychopathology: A critical review of the MMPI and MMPI-2.

Helmes

Reddon²

1993

Psychological Bulletin

162

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Many concerns have been raised about the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), but the emphasis on continuity during its revision precluded addressing many of these problems in the new MMPI-2. In this review, problems with the MMPI and MMPI-2 are explicated in an effort to promote more informed use of this and other tests of psychopathology. Major theoretical concerns include the lack of a consistent measurement model, heterogeneous scale content, and suspect diagnostic criteria. Serious structural problems include the overlap among scales, lack of cross-validation of the scoring keys, inadequacy of measures of response styles, and suspect norms. Six minor problems and new issues for the MMPI-2 are also discussed. It is concluded that although the MMPI-2 is an improvement over the MMPI, both are suboptimal from the perspective of modern psychometric standards for the assessment of psychopathology.The recent introduction of the long-awaited revision of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Hathaway & McKinley, 1967) is an appropriate point for reflection on the nature of the MMPI and its relationship to advances in the assessment of psychopathology. The MMPI is the most widely used objective test of personality (Piotrowski & Keller, 1989), with both strong adherents and notable critics (Benton, 1949;Jackson, 1982). The inventory evokes very equivocal commentary in basic texts, which is in contrast to its wide clinical use (Anastasi, 1988;Cronbach, 1990). Despite the challenges to its basic nature and uses, its applications continue to multiply. Hathaway, who is credited with designing the MMPI (cf. Meehl, 1989), expressed dissatisfaction with progress in advancing assessment with the MMPI and noted that researchers were "prolific in publication and comparatively illiterate in reading and acting upon the writings of others" (Hathaway, 1972, p. 42).Several years ago, Faschingbauer (1979) addressed the question, "Does the MMPI have a future?" Practitioners are now determining that future by either adopting the new MMPI-2

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A perspective on developments in assessing psychopathology: A critical review of the MMPI and MMPI-2.

Helmes

Reddon²

1993

Psychological Bulletin

162

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“…Construction of the PAI was intended to provide a superior alternative to the MMPI-2 instrument (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989), in view of the latter's well-documented psychometric limitations (e.g., Caldwell, 1991;Duckworth, 1991;Eysenck, 1991;Helmes & Reddon, 1993). According to White (1993, p. 23), "When compared with the MMPI-2, the PAI has a number of significant advantages.…”

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Examination of the reliability and validity of the personality assessment inventory

Boyle

Lennon

1994

J Psychopathol Behav Assess

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The reliability, discriminant validity, and construct validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) -a multidimensional self-report measure of abnormal personality traits-were examined within the Australian context. Subjects included 151 normal individuals, 30 alcoholics, and 30 schizophrenic patients. A subsample of 70 non-psychiatric adults responded to the PAI items twice over a test-retest interval of 28 days. The resulting median retest coefficient was 0. 7, indicating less than optimal stability. The median alpha (KR 21 coefficient was 0.8, suggesting rather narrow measurement scales. A significant multivariate main effect was obtained across groups after the effects of age and gender were removed. Multiple comparisons for each of the PAI scales revealed significant differences between the respective groups, as discussed. A higher-order scale factoring did not strongly support the purported PAI structure. In reanalyses of the correlation matrices included in the Professional Manual, the purported PAI factor structure was unable to be replicated for the standardization clinical sample (N = 1246), and a confirmatory factor analysis using the normative (validation) correlational data (N = 1000) revealed poor fit indices, raising further concerns about construct validity.

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“…Duckworth (1991a) reported that the MMPI-2 does not have any available validity data for the PK scale. Duckworth (1991b) and Caldwell (1991) cautioned against assuming that profiles from the MMPI-2 and the orig-inal MMPI are similar because comparisons between the MMPI and MMPI-2 are still under research investigation. Graham (1990) reported an internal consistency for the PK scale of the MMPI-2 for males and females for normative samples of .85 and .87, respectively.…”

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Utilizing the PK scale of the MMPI-2 to detect posttraumatic stress disorder in college students

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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory‐2: A Review

Abstract: The new version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

A perspective on developments in assessing psychopathology: A critical review of the MMPI and MMPI-2.

A perspective on developments in assessing psychopathology: A critical review of the MMPI and MMPI-2.

Examination of the reliability and validity of the personality assessment inventory

Utilizing the PK scale of the MMPI-2 to detect posttraumatic stress disorder in college students

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