Abstracts
Assessment. 2001 Jun;8(2):213-9.
MMPI-2 short form: psychometric characteristics
in a neuropsychological setting
Gass CS,
Luis CA
Neuropsychology, Division, Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida 33125,
USA.
A 180-item short form of the
MMPI-2 (MMPI-2-180) was recently developed by
Dahlstrom and Archer and has been proposed for
clinical use under special circumstances. This
study investigated the psychometric characteristics
of the MMPI-2-180 in order to delineate its
strengths, limitations, and appropriate scope
of clinical application. Using a neuropsychological
referral sample (N = 205), we examined accuracy
of the short-form as it pertains to the following
(a) the prediction of basic scale scores and
profile code types, (b) the identification of
high-point scales, and (c) the classification
of scores as pathological (T > or = 65) or normal
range. The results indicate that the MMPI-2-180
provides an unreliable basis for predicting
clinical code types, identifying the high-point
scale, or predicting the scores on most of the
basic scales. In contrast, scores on the MMPI-2-180
are accurate predictors of whether the full-scale
scores fall within the pathological range (T
> or = 65). These findings suggest that (a)
standard interpretive procedures involving profile
configuration should not be used, in most cases,
with the 180-item short-form results, (b) properly
interpreted, this shortened version provides
potentially useful information regarding the
probable presence of various problem areas,
and (c) this information is very limited when
contrasted with that obtained using the complete
or abbreviated (i.e., 370 item) version of the
MMPI-2.
PMID: 11428700 [PubMed - indexed
for MEDLINE]
Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2003
Jul;18(5):521-7.
MMPI-2 short form proposal:
CAUTION
Neuropsychology Division,
Psychology Service (116-B), Veterans Affairs
Medical Center, 1201 N.W. 16th Street, Miami,
FL 33125, USA. gass.carlton@miami.va.gov
The Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is widely used
in neuropsychology, though its length (567 items)
is sometimes prohibitive. This study investigated
some psychometric characteristics of the 180-item
version of the MMPI-2 () in order to delineate
its strengths, limitations, and appropriate
scope of clinical application. Limited reliability
and poor predictive accuracy were recently reported
for many of the MMPI-2 short-form scales in
a study that used 205 brain-injured patients.
In the present investigation, we used a psychiatric
sample (N=186) with normal neurological findings
to examine short-form accuracy in predicting
basic scale scores, profile code types, identifying
high-point scales, and classifying scores as
pathological (T>/=65) or normal-range. The results
suggest that, even as applied to neurologically
normal individuals, the proposed short form
of the MMPI-2 is unreliable for predicting clinical
code types, identifying the high-point scale,
or predicting the scores on most of the basic
scales. In contrast, this short form can be
used to predict whether the full-scale scores
fall within the pathological range (T>/=65).
These findings suggest that clinicians might
be able to salvage a small amount of information
from the shortened (180-item) version of the
MMPI-2 when MMPI-2 protocols are incomplete.
However, clinicians should not use a standard
interpretive approach with this test, and routine
clinical application is unwarranted. Future
evaluations of short-form validity should provide
a more detailed examination of individual protocols,
including an analysis of the frequency of accurate
prediction of full-form scores.
PMID: 14591447 [PubMed - indexed
for MEDLINE]
Assessment, Vol. 8, No. 2,
213-219 (2001)
© 2001 SAGE Publications
MMPI-2 Short Form: Psychometric Characteristics
in a Neuropsychological Setting
Carlton S. Gass, Cheryl A. Luis
Veterans Affairs Medical Center,
Miami, Florida
A 180-item short form of the
MMPI-2 (MMPI-2-180) was recently developed by
Dahlstrom and Archer and has been proposed for
clinical use under special circumstances. This
study investigated the psychometric characteristics
of the MMPI-2-180 in order to delineate its
strengths, limitations, and appropriate scope
of clinical application. Using a neuropsychological
referral sample (N = 205), we examined accuracy
of the short-form as it pertains to the following
(a) the prediction of basic scale scores and
profile code types, (b) the identification of
high-point scales, and (c) the classification
of scores as pathological (T? 65) or normal
range. The results indicate that the MMPI-2-180
provides an unreliable basis for predicting
clinical code types, identifying the high-point
scale, or predicting the scores on most of the
basic scales. In contrast, scores on the MMPI-2-180
are accurate predictors of whether the full-scale
scores fall within the pathological range (T?
65). These findings suggest that (a) standard
interpretive procedures involving profile configuration
should not be used, in most cases, with the
180-item short-form results, (b) properly interpreted,
this shortened version provides potentially
useful information regarding the probable presence
of various problem areas, and (c) this information
is very limited when contrasted with that obtained
using the complete or abbreviated (i.e., 370
item) version of the MMPI-2
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Assessment, Vol. 7, No. 2,
131-141 (2000)
© 2000 SAGE Publications
A Shortened Version of the MMPI-2
W. Grant Dahlstrom
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert P. Archer
Eastern Virginia Medical School
A psychometrically sound method
of prorating scores from a shortened version
of the MMPI-2 is presented to approximate the
full-scale raw scores on the basic scales. After
a brief review of the history of short versions
of the original MMPI and their strengths and
weaknesses, justifications for developing and
publishing this new version are offered. In
spite of the risk of abuse by harassed and over-worked
clinicians, there are cogent reasons to make
this set of procedures available to practitioners
and research investigators. These procedures
were devised on the data from the 2,600 men
and women in the original MMPI-2 restandardization
sample and cross-validated on a sample of 632
test records from a psychiatric inpatient service.
The dependability of estimated single raw scores
as well as of the patterning of the prorated
profile patterns is explored.
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Psychological Assessment
with the MMPI-2
by Alan F. Friedman,
David S. Nichols, Richard W. Lewak,
James T. Webb Lawrence Erlbaum, publisher,
August 2000, 728 pages
Excerpt: Short forms
of the test refer to reduced sets of
items on different scales... At least
14 short forms were developed ...
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Other MMPI Short Forms
Short forms of the MMPI and
MMPI-R included:
Mini-Mult (using two methods;
Kincannon, 1968), Midi-Mult (Dean, 1972), two
Maxi-Mults (McLachlan, 1974; Spera & Robertson,
1974), Hugo Short Form (Hugo, 1972), Faschingbauer
Abbreviated MMPI (FAM; Faschingbauer, 1974),
and MMPI-168 (Overall & Gomez-Mont, 1974).
