Development of a Short Form for the MMPI-2 Based on Scale Elevation Congruence

Assessment ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. McGrath ◽  
Ray Terranova ◽  
David L. Pogge ◽  
Celina Kravic
Keyword(s):  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Reasonable Alternative ◽  
Long Form

The length of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is often considered a barrier to its use, leading to the development of short forms. Two methods of abbreviating the revised MMPI have now been developed. One agrees poorly with the long form in terms of which scales are elevated. The second ensures perfect congruence in which scales are elevated but requires computer administration. This article describes the development of a short form representing a compromise approach. The short form was derived using 800 psychiatric inpatients and cross-validated with samples of 658 inpatients and 266 outpatients. It is briefer than the computerized short form but does not achieve perfect congruence with the full inventory. It is longer than earlier noncomputerized short forms but demonstrates greater scale elevation congruence with the full inventory and allows estimates of more scales. The short form offers a reasonable alternative when the full inventory is impractical.

MMPI Short Forms: A Clinical Perspective

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 627-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack D. Edinger
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Significance ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Clinical Perspective ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Substantial Interest

Although numerous studies have compared Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) short-form scores with scores obtained from the standard MMPI, recent (1980) reports by Butcher, Kendall, and Hoffman and Newmark, Woody, Ziff, and Finch suggest that a substantial interest in such comparisons may remain. It is questionable, however, whether further studies of this nature are warranted. In fan, such studies have only limited clinical significance and may, at times, lead to inaccurate conclusions about available short forms. The purpose herein is to demonstrate the limited utility of research in which short forms are evaluated purely in terms of their prediction of standard form results. Further, a number of more clinically significant questions in regard to MMPI short forms are presented hopefully as a catalyst for future research.

Comment on Merydith and Phelps (2009): “Convergent Validity of the MMPI–A and MACI Scales of Depression”

2010 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 766-768
Author(s):  
Alfred L. Brophy
Keyword(s):  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory

In 2009, Merydith and Phelps reported convergent validity of scales in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–Adolescent (MMPI–A) and the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) that assess depression with a sample of adolescent psychiatric inpatients. This comment addresses analysis of these data, cites selected research on sex and the two inventories, and restates the recommendation that researchers routinely examine such data separately by sex before proceeding with combined-sex analyses.

Abstract 1011: SUR2 Short Form-Based Channels Confer A Glibenclamide Insensitive, ATP-Sensitive Potassium Current In Cardiac Myocytes

Circulation ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 116 (suppl_16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie-Li Pu ◽  
Bin Ye ◽  
Stacie Kroboth ◽  
Elizabeth M McNally ◽  
Jonathan C Makielski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pancreatic Beta Cells ◽  
Single Channel ◽  
Ventricular Myocytes ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Smooth Muscles ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sulfonylurea Receptor ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Atp Binding Cassette Transporter ◽  
Long Form

K ATP channels are widely distributed in various tissues and play important physiological roles in regulating insulin secretion in pancreatic beta-cells, providing ischemic protections to the heart and modulating vascular tone in smooth muscles. It is generally agreed that the sarcolemmal K ATP is a hetero-octamer consisting of a Kir6.0 pore and a sulfonylurea receptor (SUR). A SUR2 mutant mouse was generated by disrupting the first nucleotide-binding domain (NBD1), where a previously reported N-end component for the glibenclamide action site was located. In ventricular myocytes isolated from relatively young mutant mice, a novel ATP-sensitive current ( I KATPn ) was detected in 33% single-channel recordings with an average amplitude of 12.3 ± 5.4 pA per patch (n = 15), which was 1/4 of the conventional I KATP (55.4 ± 10.0 pA, n = 19). The IC 50 (ATP) for K ATPn was 10 μM compared to 39.3 μM for the conventional K ATP suggesting that K ATPn could respond faster to low-ATP conditions. Mean burst duration for K ATPn (20.6 ± 1.8 ms, n=4) was half of that for the conventional K ATP (44.2 ± 9.5 ms, n=4). K ATPn was insensitive to 10 μM glibenclamide and could not be re-activated by 0.1– 0.5 mM pinacidil in the presence of ATP. Newly designed SUR2-isoform or variant-specific antibodies identified several novel SUR2 short forms in the sizes of 28 – 68 kDa in addition to a 150-kDa long form in a purified WT cardiac membrane fraction. The 150-kDa long form was absent in the mutant as expected but the SUR2 short forms remained intact. We hypothesized that channels constituted by these short forms, presumably lacking NBD1, confer I KATPn . The SUR2 short forms co-immunoprecipitated with Kir6.0 suggesting that the short forms may function like hemi-transporters reported in other ATP-binding cassette transporter families. Our results show that different K ATP compositions based on the novel SUR2 short forms may exist in cardiac sarcolemmal membrane.

A Comparison of the Long and Short Forms of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency

1987 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan M.S. Verderber ◽  
V. Gregory Payne
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Adapted Physical Education ◽  
Motor Proficiency ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Placement Decisions ◽  
Long Form ◽  
Mean Differences ◽  
Percentile Scores

The relationship between the long and short forms of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency was investigated. Forty-eight regular education students, who had been referred to adapted physical education, were administered the long form of this test. Short form scores were subsequently derived from the long form items. Pearson product-moment r values generally indicated strong relationships between long and short form scores when the data were converted to standard and percentile scores. T-test analyses, however, indicated that long and short form standard score mean differences were significant at the .01 level (conventional .05 alpha level was reduced to .01 by the Dunn Test) for the two younger age groups and the all-subjects group. These results indicate that placement decisions in adapted physical education may vary depending upon which form of the test is used.

Use of the Harris and Lingoes Depression MMPI Subscales in Assessing Later Life

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1291-1297
Author(s):  
Lee Hyer, Blaze Harkey ◽  
William R. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Beck Depression Inventory ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
T Score ◽  
Depressed Group

A profile of later life depression was developed. One hundred later life psychiatric inpatients were administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory. These subjects were divided into depressed and nondepressed groups based on two criteria, an MMPI–-D T score ≥ 70 and a Beck score of 17. These two groups were compared on the MMPI Harris and Lingoes and Serkownek subscales and the Wiggins subscales. On 26 subscales depressed group were significantly higher than the nondepressed group. All but three of these 26 subscales were considered conceptually related to one of the five Harris and Lingoes-Depression subscales. This provided a profile of later life depression. There were also six subscales on which the nondepressed group was higher than the depressed group. These were distinctly nondepressive symptoms.

Speech-Sounds Perception Test: Long- and Short-Forms Reliability Adjusted for Item Difficulty

2001 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
Richard A. Charter
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Item Difficulty ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Long Form

The internal consistency reliability of the Speech-Sounds Perception Test was computed for the long form (.9159), short form (.8410), and the six series (.6109 to .7310). The total sample ( N = 632) consisted of normal, diffusely brain-damaged, and undiagnosed patients referred for assessment.

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