Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory®-3 (MMPI®-3)

The new Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI®-3) is an up-to-date personality assessment available for mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings. The test is modernized for today’s clients and provides new norms and updated items and scales. The MMPI-3 continues to build on the history and strengths of the MMPI instruments to provide an empirically validated, psychometrically relevant standard for psychological assessment.

ASSESSMENT SCALES

The MMPI-3 includes 72 new and 24 updated items used to develop new scales (Eating Concerns, Compulsivity, Impulsivity, and Self-Importance).

Validity Indicators

• CRIN Combined Response Inconsistency

• VRIN Variable Response Inconsistency

• TRIN True Response Inconsistency

• F Infrequent Responses

• Fp Infrequent Psychopathology responses

• Fs Infrequent Somatic Responses

• FBS Symptom Validity Scale

• RBS Response Bias Scale

• L Uncommon Virtues

• K Adjustment Validity

• CNS Cannot Say (reported as a raw score only)

Higher-Order (H-O) and Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales

Higher-Order (H-O)

• EID Emotional/Internalizing Dysfunction

• THD Thought Dysfunction

• BXD Behavioral/Externalizing Dysfunction

Restructured Clinical (RC)

• RCd Demoralization

• RC1 Somatic Complaints

• RC2 Low Positive Emotions

• RC4 Antisocial Behavior

• RC6 Ideas of Persecution

• RC7 Dysfunctional Negative Emotions

• RC8 Aberrant Experiences

• RC9 Hypomanic Activation

Somatic/Cognitive and Internalizing Scales

Somatic/Cognitive

• MLS Malaise

• NUC Neurological Complaints

• EAT Eating Concerns

• COG Cognitive Complaints

Internalizing

• SUI Suicidal/Death Ideation

• HLP Helplessness/

• Hopelessness

• SFD Self-Doubt

• NFC Inefficacy

• STR Stress

• WRY Worry

• CMP Compulsivity

• ARX Anxiety-Related Experiences

• ANP Anger Proneness

• BRF Behavior-Restricting Fears

Externalizing and Interpersonal Scales

Externalizing

• FML Family Problems

• JCP Juvenile Conduct Problems

• SUB Substance Abuse

• IMP Impulsivity

• ACT Activation

• AGG Aggression

• CYN Cynicism

Interpersonal

• SFI Self-Importance

• DOM Dominance

• DSF Disaffiliativeness

• SAV Social Avoidance

• SHY Shyness

Personality Psychopathology

Five (PSY-5) Scales

• AGGR Aggressiveness

• PSYC Psychoticism

• DISC Disconstraint

• NEGE Negative Emotionality/Neuroticism

• INTR Introversion/Low Positive Emotionality

AREAS OF APPLICATION

• Assess major symptoms of social and personal maladjustment.

• Identify appropriate treatment strategies and potential difficulties with treatment early in the assessment process.

• Identify suitable candidates for high-risk public safety positions.

• Support classification, treatment and management decisions in criminal justice and correctional settings.

• Give a strong empirical foundation for a clinician’s expert testimony.

• Assess medical patients and design effective treatment strategies, including chronic pain management.

• Evaluate participants in substance abuse programmes and select appropriate treatment approaches.

• Provide valuable insight for marriage and family counselling.

REPORT OPTIONS

The following software reports are available:

• Score Report: provides scores for all 52 scales of the test and includes a summary page to facilitate standard MMPI-3 interpretation along with customisable item-level information.

• Interpretive Report for Clinical Settings: composed of all information provided in the Score Report as well as an integrated interpretation of scores covering a summary of the major findings, comprehensive information about potential threats to test score validity, and a description of clinical symptoms, personality characteristics, and behavioural tendencies. The interpretation continues with diagnostic possibilities indicated by test results, recommendations pertaining to treatment planning, and a list of un-scorable and critical responses. Endnotes identify scores associated with each interpretive statement and a Research Reference List provides discrete publications supportingempirical-correlate-based statements.

• Police Candidate Interpretive Report: based on police candidate outcome research, this report helps psychologists identify high-risk candidates in an efficient, evidence-based, and legally defensible way. This report includes full scoring information (as seen in the Score Report) and an integrated interpretation of scores specifically for police candidates.