Differentiating Normal from Abnormal Personality with the MMPI-2.(from the chapter) The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) (Hathaway & McKinley, 1943) has for several decades been the most widely studied and applied instrument in differentiating normal and abnormal personality. There are many reasons why the MMPI, and now its updated version the MMPI-2 (Butcher, Graham, Ben-Porath, Dahlstrom, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 2001) has maintained this status. The longevity of the test is particularly striking given the skepticism and ambivalence that have characterized its perception among some personality researchers and repeated attempts to introduce psychometrically superior instruments designed to replace the MMPI. This issue is revisited in the Conclusion section. This chapter will discuss the theoretical background of the MMPI and MMPI-2, review the emergence of this instrument as a leading clinical tool in differentiating normal and abnormal personality, discuss the present status of the MMPI-2, and provide an outlook and recommendations for future directions in MMPI-2 research and application. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)https://www.upress.umn.edu/test-division/bibliography/2000-2009/2006/ben-porath_differentiating_2006https://www.upress.umn.edu/logo.png
Yossef S Ben-Porath
(2006)
Differentiating Normal from Abnormal Personality with the MMPI-2.