MMPI-2 Profile Code Types and Measurement Error

• Published in: Journal of personality assessment Vol. 82; no. 2; pp. 179 - 188
• Main Authors: Munley, Patrick H., Germain, Jean M., Tovar-Murray, Darrick, Borgman, Amy L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc 01.04.2004; Taylor & Francis; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Female; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2; MMPI - standards; Personality; Personality tests; Psychological tests; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reliability; Stability; Techniques and methods; United States; United States; Human; Personality test; Stability; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Mental disorder; Psychometrics; Typology; Revised drafting; Inventory

We studied simulated MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) code type stability and change expected with measurement error for 12 MMPI-2 well-defined mean code type profiles. Profile scores for the 2 scales defining the code type were systematically varied to represent ta...