The amnesic population provides a unique opportunity to examine the reliability of clinical tests because amnesics do not consciously recollect initial testing sessions. In this study, amnesic subjects were studied to examine the reliability between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the MMPI-2. Findings indicated that there were no statistical differences between versio...

Extensive research has been conducted on the use of the MMPI and MMPI-2 scales in evaluating clients for psychological treatment and there have been hundreds of publications on the MMPI and MMPI-2 in the treatment evaluation area. The following highlights describe special contributions that were made to assure that the scales on the test were appropriate, reliable, and valid in predicting sympt...

We examined the convergent validity of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI; Cheung, Leung, et al., 1996), an indigenously constructed measure, by comparing its patterns of correlations with the MMPI–2 (Butcher et al., 2001). A valid sample of 147 Chinese students took both the CPAI and the MMPI–2. Results provide preliminary support for the convergence between most of the CPAI cl...

The Response Bias Scale (RBS) has been found to be a better predictor of over-reported memory complaints than Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) F, Back Infrequency (Fb), Infrequency-Psychopathology (Fp), and FBS scales. The MMPI-2-Restructured Form (RF) validity scales were designed to meet or exceed the sensitivity of their MMPI-2 counterparts to symptom over-reporting. Th...

Hundreds of articles have been published on the use of the MMPI and MMPI-2 scales to assess patients who develop mental health problems in response to stressful life events. The following summaries highlight the history of research on post-traumatic stress using scales from the MMPI-2, and its predecessor, the MMPI. The articles selected for the Highlights provide valuable information for under...

What is there about the MMPI scales that make them such valid and effective measures at detecting mental health and personality problems? What is the basis for their long-term survival value in personality assessment? The primary reason is that they were developed with the idea that personality scale items needed to be valid predictors before they were included on a measure. The original MMPI c...

Studies on MMPI and MMPI-2 malingering indexes often sacrifice generalizability in an attempt to control internal validity. This study improves external validity while still maintaining internal validity by providing graduate student participants with a realistic context for malingering on the MMPI-2 (n=94) and MMPI (n=30). Contextual parameters include a realistic life predicament, psychologic...