MMPI-2 ABS

This paper presented an overview of the MMPI-2, the restandardized version of the original MMPI instrument designed to assess adult psychopathology. It was noted that the test is comprehensive in nature consisting of 567 true-false items which are assessed in terms of 10 basic clinical scales, 7 validity scales, 15 Content Scales, 27 content component scales, 18 supplementary scales, 3 social introversion scales, 28 Harris-Lingoes subscales and 10 special or setting-specific indices. It provides seven report options.

The MMPI-2 is most frequently used for clinical patients with psychiatric symptoms and is applied in a variety of settings including psychiatric and/or medical settings, court room settings, and business settings. The instrument was normed using 1,138 males and 1,462 females drawn from diverse geographic regions and communities across the United States and included both clinical and non-clinical groups.

Strengths of the instrument are strong reliability and face validity and treatment applications. Weaknesses include some psychometric difficulties with the newer scales, the need for supplementary information to support report patterns, heterogeneity of item content within the scales, overlapping items across the different scales, low cultural relevance, the atheoretical nature of its development, and difficulties associated with using computer interpretations.

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to correct these existing problems. Specifically, Butcher and Keller (1984) state that project goals associated with the restandardization were to maintain validity while broadening the item pool to contents not represented in the original version, to provide up-to-date norms, and to include separate forms for adults and adolescents. Structural Issues: Standardization and Scales According to Graham (1999), the MMPI2 normative samples consist of 1,138 males and 1,462 females drawn from diverse geographic regions and communities across the United States. All recruited individuals were between 18 and 80 years of age. The MMPI-2 Manual for Administration and Scoring describes the distributions of age, geographic location, ethnic origin, educational attainment, marital status, occupation, and income level within the male and female samples. The restandardized sample of 2,600 individuals were matched to 1980 Census data on age, gender, minority status, social class, and education (Graham, 1999). About 81 percent were white and the remainder were non-white. The standardization sample also included diverse sets of people including such groups as airline pilot applicants, people in chronic pain, college students, psychiatric inpa
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