MMPI-2

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The MMPI and more recently the MMPI.2 have been held to be the clinical standard for assessing both fake-good and fake-bad response styles. In a contrasted.groups design. we compared simulators under fake-good (n. 67) and fake-bad (n-58) instructions to controls (n = 00) and psychiatric patients (n = 95) under standard instructions. For fake-good profiles, we found that F-K <-12 had a hit rate of 80.6% and was partly supported by earlier research (Austin, 1992). For fake-bad profiles, F> 89 and F-K > 7 were the optimum cutting scores with hit rates of 86.2% and 87.0%. respectively. Unfortunately, previous research fails to confirm these cutting scores and leading proponents of the MMPI-2 substantially disagree on what methods to employ. Therefore, we recommend in cases of suspected malingering that the MMPI-2 be used only for screening purposes.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is the most frequently utilized and protected psychometric test to assess psychopathology, personality traits, and deviations. There have been over 20,000 articles published regarding the different true or false self-report versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is the golden standard for such tests because of proven built-in reliability and validity standards. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory can be employed in many different settings to include clinical, professional, legal, forensic, and child custody settings, amongst other viable locations. Additionally, every adaptation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory following the initial version strives, meets, and exceeds The Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education (Joint Committee on Testing Practices, 2004). Finally, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is a multiculturally sound appraisal grounded by a diverse norm sample that provides impeccable reliability and validity within many settings.

The objective of this study was to examine the relative effectiveness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 (MMPI–2) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) validity scales and indexes to detect malingering. Research participants were either informed (coached) or not informed (uncoached) about the presence and operating characteristics of the validity scales and instructed to fake bad on both

Objectives: This paper presents a research conducted in Ser.T. of Arezzo with a sample of 359 users arrived to the Service with a clinical request. In order to investigate the existence of a specific addictive profile, it were studied the anamnesis of the subjects, their habits of consumption and their average profiles of personality obtained by the analysis of MMPI-2.
Methods: The analyses concern the entire sample and distinct subgroups in relation to the type of substance used or behavioral addiction that led the persons to require a clinical help. The psychologists of Ser.T. assessed the patients with the MMPI-2 during the last 14 years to detect psychopathological behaviors with clinical and statistical criteria. The questionnaires were divided in two groups (males and females) and for each subject were derived T points of the Fundamental and Content Scale. Then for each scale was calculated the average value. The tests were processed using the “Panda” software. The average of the scores of each subgroup produced
the total profile. Results: The results show that it is not possible to identify a typical profile of the addict personality. Subjects
show multiple profiles and about one-third of the sample doesn’t show psychopathological features detectable with the test.
Conclusions: The difficulty to define a typical psychodiagnostic profile of addicted confirms the opportunity of accurate clinical assessment for an effective clinical treatment. The MMPI-2 profiles included in the sample show the psychological state in which are the addicted when they ask for clinical support. In this sense, the profiles represent a kind of cut-off, an image of the psychopathological state in which is located an individual who is not able to manage his or her dependence. 
Keywords: MMPI-2, addiction, personality, assessment.
Fin dal 1998 il test Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
2 (MMPI-2) è stato utilizzato presso il Ser.T. dell’Azienda USL8
di Arezzo per l’assessment psicopatologico degli utenti in ingresso.
A partire dal 2004 il Ser.T. ha stabilito un protocollo psicodiagnostico
che prevede la somministrazione dei test MMPI e Addiction Severity Index (ASI) oltre che lo svolgimento di colloqui clinici finalizzati a raccogliere l’anamnesi dell’utente e l’eventuale disponibilità ad intraprendere un percorso terapeutico riabilitativo. Lo studio qui presentato si propone di individuare le caratteristiche socio-anamnestiche di un campione di utenti, le loro abitudini di consumo e i profili medi di personalità ottenuti grazie all’analisi del test MMPI, distinguendo il campione in sottogruppi relativamente alla tipologia di sostanza assunta o la dipendenza comportamentale che ha spinto il soggetto a recarsi al Ser.T. Abbiamo dunque indagato se il campione generale e, in seguito, i singoli sottogruppi, presentano caratteristici profili di personalità secondo i risultati ottenuti al test MMPI.
Parole chiave: MMPI-2, dipendenza patologica, personalità, valutazione diagnostica.

White paper: Instruction manual for the Dynamic Theory-driven Profile Interpretation (DTP) of the MMPI-2. New interpretations, the MMPI-2 viewed from a developmental perspective.

Recommendation:
"William Snellen has produced a brilliant and very useful book on MMPI-2 interpretation. Now with the MMPI-2 RF and MMPI-3, Snellen’s book is especially valuable because it demonstrates the clinical utility of a deeper understanding of personality that is not possible with the simplified content driven MMPI-RF and MMPI-3." (Robert M. Gordon, PhD)

Meta-analytic techniques were applied to studies of the MMPI-2 in which participants given standard instructions were compared with participants instructed or believed to have been underreporting. Traditional and supplementary indices of underreporting yielded a mean effect size of 1.25, suggesting that underreporting respondents differ from those responding honestly by a little more than 1 standard deviation, on the average, on these scales. Analyses of classification accuracy suggested that several scales are moderately effective in detecting underreporting, although accuracy decreases if participants have been coached about validity scales. Base rates of defensive responding in relevant populations are reviewed, and methodological issues, including research designs, coaching, and incremental validity of supplementary underreporting scales, are discussed.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scales for Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria were studied in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The RA patients showed elevated scores on these scales, and these results are similar to those reported in each of 6 published studies. The elevated MMPI scale scores can be explained largely by 5 “disease-related” MMPI statements which met 2 criteria: (a) they were among 11 of the 117 MMPI statements that two-thirds of rheumatologists predicted would be RA-associated; and (b) RA patients and normal subjects differed significantly in their responses to these statements. The responses of RA patients and normal subjects to most other statements in the MMPI Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria scales were quite similar. In RA patients, responses to “disease-related” statements were correlated with results of measures of disease activity, which indicates that responses to these MMPI items reflect the severity, as well as the presence, of RA. These findings suggest that new criteria are needed for validation of the MMPI as a clinical tool for the recognition of hypochondriasis, depression, and hysteria in a patient who has RA.

The authors&#39; goals are to use scales from the MMPI hypothesized in their previous research to be correlates of liability to schizophrenia to differentiate DSM-III schizophrenia from bipolar and unipolar affective illness and to cross-validate these correlates in an independently ascertained sample of patients with Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) schizophrenia or affective disorder. The criterion sample consisted of 83 patients consecutively admitted to a state-operated community mental health center. Diagnosis of schizophrenia; bipolar disorder, manic; and major depression were assigned by using DSM-III. The replication sample consisted of 60 adults with RDC diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and unipolar disorder who were parents of children in two samples collected for a study of offspring at high risk for schizophrenia and other psychopathology. After the patients in the criterion sample were classified by logistic regression analysis, ...

Our study examined Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) F-family validity scales
(F, Fb, F-K, Fp) in treatment-seeking veterans diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
related to Operation Enduring or Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF). Seventy-nine percent of veterans had F T
scores over 65, 54% elevated F over 80 T; and 71% elevated Fb above 65 or 80. Fewer veterans elevated
F-K (
13; 22%) and Fp (
100 T; 5%). Differences emerged between veterans with and without elevated
(
65 T) F scores on F-family validity scales, clinical scales, and self-report measures of psychopathology.
Elevations for F-family validity scales at various cut points are reported.