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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory‐2: A Review
Author(s) -
DUCKWORTH JANE C.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1991.tb02644.x
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , california psychological inventory , representativeness heuristic , psychology , personality assessment inventory , personality , clinical psychology , personality test , social psychology , psychometrics , test validity
The new version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the MMPI‐2, is described and critiqued in this article. The MMPI‐2 has many positive features such as updated items, new norms, additional validity scales, and additional clinical scales for diagnosing problems not addressed by the original MMPI. There are, however, also many negative features for this test such as problems with the compatibility of code types and the representativeness of the norm group. Much research needs to be done before accurate interpretations can be made for all MMPI‐2 profiles and the full potential of the test is realized.