Updating the MMPI-2 for assessing personal injury claimants: the MMPI-2-PI

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Beaumont, Patricia. 2009. "Updating the MMPI-2 for assessing personal injury claimants: the MMPI-2-PI." Crowe, Simon F. (ed.) 15th Annual Conference of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists. Melbourne, Victoria 30 Oct - 01 Nov 2009 Melbourne, Australia.
Paper/Presentation Title

Updating the MMPI-2 for assessing personal injury claimants: the MMPI-2-PI

Presentation TypePoster
Authors
AuthorBeaumont, Patricia
EditorsCrowe, Simon F.
Journal or Proceedings TitleCombined Abstracts of 2009 Psychology Conferences: The Abstracts of the 15th Annual Conference of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Number of Pages1
Year2009
Place of PublicationMelbourne, Australia
ISBN9780909881405
Web Address (URL) of Paperhttp://www.psychology.org.au/publications/conferences/abstracts/
Conference/Event15th Annual Conference of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Event Details
15th Annual Conference of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Event Date
30 Oct 2009 to end of 01 Nov 2009
Event Location
Melbourne, Victoria
Abstract

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 (MMPI-2) is a popular personality measure commonlyused by psychologists to examine psychosocial functioning in the medico-legal arena. However, potential flaws such as the criterion keying approach to test construction, the time expenditure for test completion, item overlap, and the number of scales developed for the test potentially limit the utility of this test in this setting. In 2006, Goh completed a doctoral dissertation in which she revised the MMPI-2 at the item level in an attempt to eliminate the structural problems. Using a sample of MMPI-2 profiles of more than 3,000 Australian personal injury claimants, this new structural approach adapted for use in the personal injury setting (MMPI-2-PI) featured internal consistency coefficients that are superior to those of the standard
MMPI-2, no item overlap across scales, and a raw score computations that permit items to be weighted according to their factor loadings on the components or facets to which they are allocated. The current study will compare the characteristics of the MMPI-2 and the MMPI-2-PI in both personal injury claimants and the MMPI-2 standardisation sample to address the incremental validity of this new structural approach

KeywordsMMPI-2; personality assessment; personal injury
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020529999. Other psychology not elsewhere classified
520203. Cognitive neuroscience
520299. Biological psychology not elsewhere classified
Public Notes

Poster presentation - only abstracts published in the conference proceedings.

Byline AffiliationsDepartment of Psychology
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