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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory [‚min·ə′sōd·ə ¦məl·tə¦fāz·ik ‚pər·sə′nal·əd·ē ‚in·vən‚tȯr·ē]
(psychology)
An empirical scale of an individual's personality based mainly on the person's yes-or-no responses to a questionnaire of 550 items; included are special validating scales which measure the individual's test-taking attitude and degree of frankness. Abbreviated MMPI. Also known as multiphasic personality inventory (MPI).


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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2): The MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) is a self-report psychological instrument consisting of 567 true-false questions.
Some sophisticated feigners of malingering produce valid MMPI-2 profiles, while the most unsophisticated feigners produce suspicious profiles (Slick, et al.
Since the MMPI and MMPI-2 are considered by clinicians to be two of the most useful measures of personality for use with individuals with visual impairments it may be helpful to briefly describe the purposes of each instrument.
 
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