Describes and critiques the new version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory, the MMPI-2. Notes MMPI-2 has many positive features such as updated items, new norms, additional validity scales, and additional clinical scales. Claims negative features include problems with compatibility of code types and representativeness of norm group.…

Addressed normative aspects of recent Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory critical item sets in normals (N=123), inpatient alcoholics (N=383) and psychiatric inpatients (N=567). Results indicated that although pathological groups generally endorsed more critical items than normals, mean differences were not large. (LLL)

Provides data from over 2,000 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories on the nature of differences on number of elevated scales and in 2- and 3-point code types that occur when norms developed by Colligan et al. are applied. Demonstrates that no one-to-one correspondence exists between results of original norms and results of Colligan's new…

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory responses obtained from a random sample of Midwestern adults yielded a pattern significantly different from the pattern of the original norms. From these data, two new kinds of normative tables have been developed. In addition, traditional scoring procedures are replaced by procedures that yield…

Collected responses from 1,467 normal midwestern adults to develop contemporary norms for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. In general, responses yielded higher mean scores than the original standardization group, suggesting a more conservative approach to profile interpretation. (JAC)

One hundred younger, middle-aged, and older psychiatric inpatients were compared on the basic 13 MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) scales and 77 MMPI Subscales. Older patients tended to respond more conservatively to these scales, to show less pathology, and to endorse fewer subtle/obvious items than the other age groups.…

Includes two articles regarding scoring for Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales. Comments on the advisability of utilizing normalized T scores (Hsu), and addresses these objections from a theoretical standpoint and in the context of responses from a new reference sample (Colligan, Osborne, and Offord). (LLL)

Recent work with the F-K index of the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) has reaffirmed its usefulness for identifying dissimulation. Presents normative tables for the F-K index based on a contemporary normative sample of 335 normal women and 304 normal men. (Author/ABB)

Presents a set of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory norms for a mixed psychiatric group of adolescents (N=1022). Normative information is stratified according to five age categories and includes means and standard deviations for the validity, clinical, and 48 content scales. Discusses the usefulness of these norms for clinicians.…

Approaches for norming skewed test score distributions are reviewed, and an analytical approach is proposed for norming the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC). Methods used in constructing norms for several well-known personality instruments that are reviewed include: (1) linear T-scores transformation in the Minnesota Multiphasic…

This study was intended to provide descriptive data of the students in the Medicine Hat Youth Assessment Center, (YAC) in terms of psychological variables obtained from the Rorschach and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). The adolescent subjects were 55 males assessed by the MMPI and 63 males and females assessed by the…

Compared factor analyses of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-168 (MMPI) with the MMPI full length version using a sample of male drug addicts. Found the two versions comparable. Factor structures were highly similar for Blacks and Whites, although significant mean differences on many scales suggested greater psychopathology among…

The original normative base for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was established in the late 1930's and early 1940's. While there was a refining of this original sample in 1957, no contemporary standards for normal people have been published. To develop new norms a random sample of 1,919 households in and near Rochester,…

Derived appropriate K-corrections for Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-168 factor scales and a general psychopathology screening scale (PSY). Determined percentile distributions of K-corrected scales in a normal sample (N=1438) and constructed a percentile profile sheet to facilitate clinical use (N=1048). Examined validity of the…

Describes the use of the MMPI-168, an efficient abbreviated administration of the standard Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) especially recommended for screening purposes. Presents percentile norms for MMPI-168 clinical scales based on a sample of 731 medical school applicants. Suggests considering social, cultural, and…