Minnesota test

MMPI is the abbreviation of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Questionnaire, which is the most widely used personality measurement scale at present. Its uses are as follows: 1. It is used to find various mental symptoms and psychological problems in clinic and evaluate their severity. It can be used as a reference for diagnosis. 2. It can be used to evaluate individual or collective personality characteristics and provide reference for employing people and choosing jobs. 3. In psychological counseling, MMPI can help psychological counseling workers understand the general situation, severity and potential problems that are not easy to be found in a short time, such as suicidal desire and its intensity, impulsive danger, drinking, etc., and serve psychological counseling. It can also be used for visitors or subjects to understand their emotions, behavior patterns and personality characteristics, and provide reference for the parties to make independent decisions and correct their behaviors.

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test (MMPI) was compiled by Howard and Mojinli from the University of Minnesota in the early 1940s. Comrade Song Weizhen, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the cooperation of relevant units, introduced MMPI into China in 1980s, and called it Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Questionnaire.

(A) the meaning of MMPI

MMPI method has 566 questions in the form of self-report, of which 16 is a repeated question (mainly used to check the consistency of the answers of the subjects to see if the answers are serious), and there are actually only 550 questions. Topics cover a wide range, including physical condition, mental state and attitude towards family, marriage, religion, politics, law and society.

MMPI has 10 clinical scale, including 1) epilepsy (HS), 2) depression (D), 3) addiction (HY), 4) psychopathy (Pd), 5) masculinity-femininity (Mf), 6) paranoia (Pa), 7. Among them, Mf and Si scales can only explain the tendency of personality, and have nothing to do with disease. From the above 10 scale, we can get the score of 10, which stands for 10 sex substance.

MMPI has four validity scales, which are used to identify different test-taking attitudes and reaction tendencies. If there are abnormal scores on these scales, it means that the validity of other scales is questionable, including L, F and K.

Lying score (L): * * * 15 questions. On this scale, a low score indicates honesty, self-confidence and self-criticism.

Deception score (F): * * * 64 questions. The high score of this scale may be deliberately pretending to be sick. The answer is not serious or really sick, such as delusion, hallucination, thinking disorder and so on.

Correction score (K): It consists of 30 items sensitive to fraud. A high K score may indicate an attempt to disguise, while a low K score may indicate an attempt to be too frank, self-critical or disguised. Using K score to correct some clinical scales seems to increase its effectiveness.

Question score (? ): indicates the number of questions that are missing, unanswered or answered "Yes" or "No". Answer more than 30 questions, and the answer sheet is invalid.