measures of personality Flashcards
(40 cards)
Clinical scale 1
Hypochondriasis (HS)
Clinical scale 2
Depression (D)
Clinical scale 3
Hysteria (HY)
Clinical scale 4
Psychopathic Deviate (pd)
Clinical scale 5
masculinity-feminity (MI)
Clinical scale 6
Paranoia (Pa)
Clinical scale 7
Psychasthenia (Pt)
Clinical scale 8
Schizophrenia (Sc)
Clinical scale 9
Hypomania (Ma)
Clinical scale 0
Social introversion (SI)
MMPI age and reading level
18 and older
reading level - 5th, 6th, or 8th
what is the MMPI rational content analysis
new content scales were derived from a rational content analysis which entailed first selecting items on the basis of their content and then including in a scale those items that had correlations of .50 or above with the total scale score and low correlation with total scores on other scales
L (lie)
-high score - attempt to present in a favorable light or lack of insight into the motivation
-associated with a reduced ability to benefit from psychotherapy
-low score - frankness in responding , exaggeration of negative characteristics
F (frequency)
-High score -> responded in a diviant or atypical manner
-fake bad, deliberate malingering, gross eccentricity, sig pathology, random responding or responding all T or F
-low score - attempt to fake good, tendency toward social conformity, denial of problems or an absence sig psychopathology
-T score of 100 or higher suggest an invalid profile
K (correction)
- High - high degree of defensiveness or denial, a desire to fake good or false on all the time
-associated with resistance and poor treatment prognosis
-low score suggests frankness, self-criticism or desire to fake bad
-K scale suppressor variable - defensiveness, education level, and SES
Cannot say (?)
-high score - reading difficulties, indecisiveness, distractability, rebelliousness, or defensiveness.
-30 or more cannot say items may indicate an invalid profile
F Back (Fb)
fake bad on the last 197 items
Variable Response inconsistency (VRIN)
VRIN - consistency
T score 80 or above is an invalid profile
True Response inconsistency (TRIN)
-paired items that are the opposite of each other
-additional measure of consistency
-interpret as the VRIN scale
Infrequency pathology (Fp)
-infrequently endorsed by psychiatric patients
- high score indicates an attempt to “fake bad” even if the examinee is a psychiatric patient
MMPI-RF
alternative to MMPI-2
clarify scores
9 restructured cliical RC scales
8 validity scales
what is the MMPI M and SD
mean = 50 and SD = 10 and T score of 65 or higher is clinically significant
What do you start with when you interpret the MMPI
validity
what does elevated L, low F, and elevated K mean
faking good that is a common pattern in child custody litigants “parental alienation syndrome”
