Validity Rates of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?2 in a VA Medical Center Setting

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta E. Braxton ◽  
Patrick S. Calhoun ◽  
John E. Williams ◽  
Christina D. Boggs
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory

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.

Influence of Dissimulation on Indexes of Response Consistency for the MMPI

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 1013-1014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas T. Gallucci
Keyword(s):  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Veterans Administration ◽  
Disability Benefits ◽  
Administration Medical ◽  
Random Responding ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Response Consistency

Whether indexes of consistent responding on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) measured dissimulation versus random responding was evaluated with Veterans Administration Medical Center psychiatric patients who were applying for disability benefits. Elevations on the Test-Retest index and Carelessness scale did not correspond with motivation to dissimulate. Comparing profiles without elevated validity indexes and with Carelessness scales that were either elevated or not elevated, the clinical scales were uniformly higher for profiles with heightened Carelessness scales.

Automation Techniques in Personality Assessment: A Frontier in Behavioral Science and Medicine

1964 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 34-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Pearson ◽  
W. M. Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Mayo Clinic ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Electronic Computer ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Routine Test ◽  
Medical Consultant ◽  
Mmpi Profile

A program is described for the development and implementation of a scoring and interpretation technique for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory through the use of an electronic computer. Depending upon the configural pattern of the MMPI profile, the computer automatically draws from a statement library of over 70 descriptive statements a personality summary of the salient characteristics of the patient. This summary is used by the medical consultant in dealing with his patient.The technique has been used on over 20,000 patients at the Mayo Clinic and is currently a routine test in the medical sections. The program has undergone many modifications since its inception in 1961.The process is described whereby the current library of descriptive statements was developed and some of the difficulties involved. It summarizes the authors’ subjective feelings about this method of personality evaluation as well as the opportunities for future research and expansion in this area.

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