Construct validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory‐2‐Restructured Form scale scores in correctional settings

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-335
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Tylicki ◽  
Tasha R. Phillips ◽  
Yossef S. Ben‐Porath ◽  
Martin Sellbom
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Correctional Settings

The MMPI-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF): Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology in the Twenty-First Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Sellbom
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Forensic Assessment ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Health Screenings

This article describes the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) and situates the instrument in contemporary psychopathology and personality literature. The historical evolution of the MMPI instruments is highlighted, including how failure to update the test for several decades resulted in increasing disinterest by basic researchers and how the restructuring efforts beginning in the 2000s promised to realign the instrument with basic research. In this regard, the construct validity associated with MMPI-2-RF scores in the context of contemporary dimensional models of psychopathology is considered. Research supporting the applied utility of the MMPI-2-RF scales in a variety of contexts—including mental health screenings, presurgical evaluations, forensic assessment, and public safety screening—is also reviewed. Critiques of the MMPI-2-RF are described and addressed. Finally, a series of recommendations for future updates of the MMPI-2-RF are described along with a path toward the MMPI-3.

Examining Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) scale scores in a transgender and gender diverse sample.

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 1239-1246
Author(s):  
William T. Bryant ◽  
Nicholas A. Livingston ◽  
John L. McNulty ◽  
Kurt T. Choate ◽  
Bradley J. Brummel
Keyword(s):  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
And Gender

The Generalizability of Overreporting Across Self-Report Measures: An Investigation With the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2–Restructured Form and the Personality Assessment Inventory in a Civil Disability Sample

Assessment ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 555-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam H. Crighton ◽  
Anthony M. Tarescavage ◽  
Roger O. Gervais ◽  
Yossef S. Ben-Porath
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Validity Scales ◽  
Cognitive Complaints ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Scale Scores

Elevated overreporting Validity Scale scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2–Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) are associated with higher scores on collateral measures; however, measures used in prior research lacked validity scales. We sought to extend these findings by examining associations between elevated MMPI-2-RF overreporting scale scores and Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) scale scores among 654 non–head injury civil disability claimants. Individuals were classified as overreporting psychopathology (OR-P), overreporting somatic/cognitive complaints (OR-SC), inconclusive reporting psychopathology (IR-P), inconclusive reporting somatic/cognitive complaints (IR-SC), or valid reporting (VR). Both overreporting groups had significantly and meaningfully higher scores than the VR group on the MMPI-2-RF and PAI scales. Both IR groups had significantly and meaningfully higher scores than the VR group, as well as lower scores than their overreporting counterparts. Our findings demonstrate the utility of inventories with validity scales in assessment batteries that include instruments without measures of protocol validity.

Characteristics of Juvenile Offenders with Invalid and Valid MMPI-A Profiles

2011 ◽  
Vol 108 (3) ◽  
pp. 908-918
Author(s):  
Julian J. Fabry ◽  
Joseph F. Bertinetti ◽  
Laura Guzman-Cavazos
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Juvenile Offender ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory ◽  
Technical Manual ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The issue of what type of juvenile offender produces an invalid versus a valid Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Adolescent Form (MMPI–A) profile requires study. Using technical manual profile invalidation requirements from a cohort sample of 1,054 juvenile offenders, 387 produced invalid profiles, whereas 667 yielded valid profiles. Utilizing scale scores from the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI), univariate and multivariate analyses for girls, boys, and combined samples of invalid and valid MMPI-A profiles suggested similarities and differences which influenced the results for the combined samples. The groups were separated on the following MACI scales: Disclosure, Impulsivity Substance Abuse Propensity, Unruly, and Oppositional by sex and for the combined group. Also noted were other MACI scales which distinguished boys and girls in comparisons made between as well as within the invalid and valid profiles.

Predictive Validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form Scale Scores in an Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 978-995
Author(s):  
Megan R. Whitman ◽  
Danielle L. Burchett ◽  
Anthony M. Tarescavage ◽  
Yossef S. Ben-Porath ◽  
Martin Sellbom
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Predictive Validity ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Relative Risk Ratio ◽  
Violence Intervention ◽  
Scale Scores

Intimate partner violence intervention programs (IPVIPs) are intended to rehabilitate individuals charged with intimate partner violence (IPV) offenses, but these programs evidence high rates of treatment dismissal and recidivism. Applying the risk-needs-responsivity framework to improve IPVIP effectiveness has been suggested, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) may be used to inform risk estimates in this context. Past research has evaluated MMPI-2-RF Restructured Clinical scale scores in an IPVIP setting, but the remaining MMPI-2-RF substantive scales have yet to be evaluated. We tested the predictive validity of conceptually relevant MMPI-2-RF Higher-Order, Specific Problems, and Personality Psychopathology Five scale scores among a large sample of men who were court-mandated to treatment. Hierarchical logistic regression analyses indicated that several MMPI-2-RF scores incremented predictions of treatment dismissal and various recidivism variables beyond intake variables. Relative risk ratio analyses demonstrated promising utility of the measure in IPVIP settings.

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