A PERSPECTIVE ON DEVELOPMENTS IN ASSESSING PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - A CRITICAL-REVIEW OF THE MMPI AND MMPI-2

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作者
HELMES, E
REDDON, JR
机构
[1] UNIV WESTERN ONTARIO,LONDON N6A 3K7,ONTARIO,CANADA
[2] ALBERT HOSP EDMONTON,EDMONTON,ALBERTA,CANADA
[3] UNIV ALBERTA,EDMONTON T6G 2E1,ALBERTA,CANADA
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10.1037/0033-2909.113.3.453
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Many concerns have been raised about the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), but the emphasis on continuity during its revision precluded addressing many of these problems in the new MMPI-2. In this review, problems with the MMPI and MMPI-2 are explicated in an effort to promote more informed use of this and other tests of psychopathology. Major theoretical concerns include the lack of a consistent measurement model, heterogeneous scale content, and suspect diagnostic criteria. Serious structural problems include the overlap among scales, lack of cross-validation of the scoring keys, inadequacy of measures of response styles, and suspect norms. Six minor problems and new issues for the MMPI-2 are also discussed. It is concluded that although the MMPI-2 is an improvement over the MMPI, both are suboptimal from the perspective of modern psychometric standards for the assessment of psychopathology.
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页码:453 / 471
页数:19
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