MCMI-II Personality Traits Associated with the MMPI-2 Masculinity-Femininity Scale

Assessment ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
Mark A. Blais
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Behavioral Correlates ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
T Score ◽  
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory ◽  
Paranoid Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder Scales ◽  
Report Measure

There has been limited research into the behavioral correlates associated with the Masculinity-Femininity ( Mf) scale of the MMPI (and the MMPI-2). In this study, both the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory—II (MCMI-II), a frequently used self-report measure of personality functioning, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 (MMPI-2) were administered to a group of 76 female psychiatric inpatients. The sample was divided based upon MMPI-2 Mf scale T scores. Subjects with a T score >50 were assigned to the high- Mf group ( n = 28), whereas subjects with a T score >50 were assigned to the low- Mf group ( n = 48). The two groups were compared across the 13 personality disorder scales of the MCMI-II. The results showed that subjects in the high- Mf group had significantly higher scores on the MCMI-II Narcissistic, Antisocial, Aggressive/Sadistic, and Paranoid personality disorder scales. A correlational analysis revealed that the MMPI-2 Mf scale was significantly correlated with these four MCMI-II personality disorder scales. These results are discussed in light of their clinical implications and the limitations of the study.

Similarities and differences among antisocial and psychopathic self‐report inventories from the perspective of general personality functioning

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jabbar Hicklin ◽  
Thomas A. Widiger
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Antisocial Personality Disorder ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
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There are currently many alternative self‐report inventories for the assessment of antisocial and psychopathic personality traits. The hypothesis of the current study was that similarities and differences among them can be meaningfully understood with respect to their representation of common personality traits. The current study explored this hypothesis using as a point of comparison the Five Factor Model (FFM) of general personality functioning. Six self‐report measures currently being used in antisocial and psychopathy research were administered, along with a self‐report measure of the FFM. Differences were obtained across the six inventories with respect to how they related to the domains and facets of the FFM that were consistent with FFM models of psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder. Implications for the theoretical and clinical understanding of findings obtained with the respective inventories, and the personality disorder constructs they assess, are discussed. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals Criterion A of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders in MMPI-2/RF Personality Disorder Scales

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark H. Waugh ◽  
Abby L. Mulay ◽  
E. Bailey Crittenden ◽  
Gina Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Item Pool ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Criterion A ◽  
Personality Psychopathology ◽  
Personality Disorder Scales

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) instruments are frequently used to assess personality and psychopathology. Recent publications of personality disorder (PD) spectra scales for dimensionalized PD syndromes with MMPI instruments may advance PD assessment. To this end, we examined MMPI-Second Edition (2) and MMPI-2-Restructured Form (-RF) PD Spectra scales within the lens of a contemporary dimensional model of PDs, the alternative model for personality disorders (AMPD). The core dimension of PD, Criterion A of the AMPD or level of personality functioning (LPF), was characterized quantitatively within the PD Spectra scales. By sequentially factor analyzing the scales of the Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP-118) to a common general factor of PD, an index of LPF external to the MMPI item pool was established. This LPF dimension was strongly represented across most PD Spectra scales. LPF variances within the PD Spectra scales were deconstructed using measures of general demoralization (RCdemoralization) and maladaptive personality traits indexed by the Personality Psychopathology-5 (PSY-5). Nuanced LPF and PD Spectra scale relationships were discerned. Dimensionalized Antisocial PD, Borderline PD, Dependent PD, and Paranoid PD showed meaningful association with LPF after demoralization, and maladaptive trait variances were removed. The examination of the MMPI-3 item pool reveals that the existing PD Spectra scale item sets are largely carried forward in the new edition of the MMPI. This suggests PD Spectra scale correlates, including LPF relationships, may be discernable in the newest edition of the MMPI, pending future study.

Use of the MMPI–2's VRIN Scale with Severely Disturbed Populations: Consistent Responding May Be More Problematic than Inconsistent Responding

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Stukenberg ◽  
Charles Brady ◽  
Nadya Klinetob
Keyword(s):  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Random Responding ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Acute Distress ◽  
Psychiatric Population ◽  
Inconsistent Responding ◽  
Report Measure

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–Second Edition includes a new validity scale, the VRIN scale, intended to detect random responding. High scores are viewed as casting suspicion on the validity of the profile. For the present study, the authors evaluated some of the complexities of the VRIN scale including its interaction with the F scale. In particular, we tested two hypotheses. First is that among psychotically disturbed test takers, some inconsistent responding is an integral and expected mode of responding to a self-report measure. That is, in an inpatient psychiatric population increased confused responding (high VRIN score) is related in predictable ways to increased endorsement of pychotic scales and two-point codes and to increased psychotic diagnoses. The second hypothesis is a corollary—that the absence of inconsistency (low VRIN) in a protocol indicating acute distress (high F) may indicate that a respondent is being too consistent in presenting self as having severe difficulties. In this case, the rest of the protocol may be an exaggerated description of the clinical presentation. A sample of 521 psychiatric inpatients was used to evaluate these hypotheses. Some support for both hypotheses is reported. Further studies are recommended to evaluate the hypotheses.

scholarly journals The Five-Factor Personality Inventory for ICD-11: A Facet-Level Assessment of the ICD-11 Trait Model

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Oltmanns ◽  
Thomas A. Widiger
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Theoretical Structure ◽  
Specific Assessment ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Domain Level ◽  
Report Measure

The ICD-11 includes a dimensional model of personality disorder assessing five domains of maladaptive personality. To avoid unnecessary complexity, the ICD-11 model includes assessment of personality traits only at the domain level. A measure exists to assess the domains of the ICD-11 model (the Personality Inventory for ICD-11; PiCD), yet a more rich and useful assessment of personality is provided at the facet level. We used items from the scales assessing the five-factor model of personality disorder (FFMPD) to develop the Five-Factor Personality Inventory for ICD-11 (FFiCD), a new 121-item, 20-facet, self-report measure of the ICD-11 maladaptive personality domains at the facet level. Further, the FFiCD includes 47 short scales organized beneath the facets—at the “nuance” level. Items were selected and evaluated empirically across two independent data collections, and the resulting scales were further validated in a third data collection. Correlational and factor analytic results comparing the scales of the FFiCD to the five-factor model, PiCD, and Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) supported the validity of the theoretical structure of the FFiCD and the ICD-11 model. The FFiCD may be a useful instrument for clinicians and researchers interested in a more specific assessment of maladaptive personality according to the dimensional ICD-11 personality disorder model.

Personality Disorders and Psychiatric Symptoms in Psoriasis

1995 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Alex Rubino ◽  
Alberto Sonnino ◽  
Bianca Pezzarossa ◽  
Nicola Ciani ◽  
Roberto Bassi
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory ◽  
Personality Disorder Scales

Two groups of psoriatic outpatients ( ns = 192 and 119) were given, respectively, the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II and Foulds' Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory. They were compared with dental ( n = 192) and with general surgical ( n = 190) patients. The psoriatic group presented clearly higher mean scores and frequencies on most of the personality disorder scales. On Foulds' inventory, psoriatic patients showed higher frequencies of neurotic and psychotic class allocations. A cluster analysis of personality scores provided evidence for 4 different personality clusters of patients with psoriasis: (a) Avoidant, Dependent, Schizoid, and Self-defeating (32.2%), (b) Compulsive, Narcissistic, and Aggressive (30.7%), (c) no personality disorder (18.2%), (d) Borderline, Paranoid, and Schizotypal, etc. (18.8%).

scholarly journals Investigating the Transdiagnostic Value of Subjective Emptiness

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-S9
Author(s):  
Arta Konjusha ◽  
Christopher J. Hopwood ◽  
Adrian L. Price ◽  
Oliver Masuhr ◽  
Johannes Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Current Symptom ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
Specific Disorders ◽  
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It is common for people with mental health problems to report feelings of emptiness. However, the association of subjective emptiness with specific disorders and its unique role within dimensional taxonomies of personality pathology is not well understood. The present study assesses the transdiagnostic value of subjective emptiness using a recently developed self-report measure in a mixed sample of 157 participants. The authors investigated the associations of emptiness with clinically relevant variables, including borderline personality disorder symptoms, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts. Subjective emptiness showed strong positive relationships with all criteria. Regression models controlling for impairments of personality functioning, maladaptive personality traits, and current symptom distress supported the incremental validity of emptiness for specific disorder constructs and suicidality. These findings indicate that emptiness represents a facet of psychopathology that can be particularly useful for the classification of mental disorders, and in particular internalizing disorders involving self-dysfunction and detachment.

Assessing Self-Definition and Relatedness in Level of Personality Functioning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Emily C. Mariotti ◽  
Mark H. Waugh ◽  
Cara M. McClain ◽  
Lorrie G. Beevers ◽  
A. Jill Clemence ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Assessment ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Case Vignette ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
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The two polarities model (TPM) of personality organizes psychological assessment and psychotherapy and connects to personality disorder diagnosis using the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD). The authors developed scales assessing the TPM from an existing self-report measure for level of personality functioning (LPF), a core component of the AMPD. Iterative content analyses of the LPF measure yielded scales for Autonomy and Communion corresponding to dimensions of the TPM. The scales were refined via internal consistency analyses using a measure of psychological attachment and studied in development and validation samples. Associations with relevant external criteria were explored in a series of multiple regressions. The new content-based LPF scales were illustrated with a case vignette. Although the new Autonomy/Communion scales await further validation prior to clinical use, initial evidence suggests that they may bridge the nomological nets of the TPM and AMPD and potentially offer clinical utility in assessment and treatment planning.

scholarly journals Construction and Validation of a Self-report Subjective Emptiness Scale

Assessment ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 107319112096827
Author(s):  
Adrian L. Price ◽  
Heike I. M. Mahler ◽  
Christopher J. Hopwood
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Psychiatric Symptom ◽  
Clinical Importance ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Clinical Problems ◽  
Report Measure

Subjective emptiness is a psychiatric symptom that is primarily assessed and studied as a criterion of borderline personality disorder, even though research suggests that it may have clinical importance beyond that diagnosis. The aim of this series of studies was to develop and validate a standalone self-report measure of subjective emptiness. A systematic, multistep approach to identifying test content was used to generate 88 items that were then trimmed to 53 via ratings of interviews with patients and experts. This preliminary scale was administered to a sample of 544 university students, and a trimmed version was given to two samples oversampled for clinical problems ( n = 1,067; n = 1,016). A five-item measure fit a unidimensional model well and had satisfactory internal consistency across these samples. External validity analyses suggested that emptiness, as measured by the Subjective Emptiness Scale, is strongly related to a number of clinical constructs, particularly in the internalizing domain, indicating that emptiness is an important construct to consider in its own right, independent of its presence in the borderline criterion set.

Disorder Concept Scales and Personality Dimensions in a Young Adult Sample

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1135-1138
Author(s):  
R. Diane Moyer ◽  
James M. Schuerger
Keyword(s):  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Axis Ii ◽  
Normal Personality ◽  
Sixteen Personality Factor ◽  
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory ◽  
Personality Factor Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Disorder Scales

Previous research has shown correlations between normal personality variables of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and Axis II personality disorder scales using the Morey, Waugh, and Blashfield Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. This study ( N = 37) compared variables from the adolescent version of the 16PF, the High School Personality Questionnaire, Revised, including the new Clinical Supplement and the MMPI scales of Morey, et al. and yielded results similar to those from earlier studies with other inventories. Extraversion scores correlated positively with those on Narcissistic and Histrionic scales, negatively with scores on Schizoid, Avoidant, and Schizotypal scales; scores on Independence had a similar pattern.

Hostility and Personality Disorder

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birendra K. Sinha ◽  
David C. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
First Year ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory ◽  
Personality Disorder Scales ◽  
Criterion Variables

The role of hostility in personality disorder (Pd) traits was explored using the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory. Stepwise multiple regression analyses were conducted to ascertain the relative contributions of the eight hostility scales. The criterion variables were the personality disorder scales of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory. The participants were 158 first year male and female university students. The results show that Resentment (covert hostility) explains large proportions of variances in borderline, avoidant, schizotypal, passive-aggressive, obsessive-compulsive, and schizoid disorder traits. Verbal hostility (overt hostility) is associated with antisocial, histrionic, and narcissistic Pd traits. Suspiciousness contributes relatively large variances in paranoid disorder traits, whereas guilt is the dominant aspect of dependent Pd traits. The results are explained with reference to the agreeableness versus antagonism facets of the Five-Factor model of personality and Beck's schema construct.

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