An abbreviation of the MMPI with increased comprehensibility and readability

✍ Scribed by L. Charles Ward; Rosemary B. Selby

• Book ID: 102675044
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 545 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198001)36:1<180::aid-jclp2270360121>3.0.co;2-z

✦ Synopsis

A 167-item short form of the MMPI, the Improved Readability Form (IRF), was shown to contain items that were more readable, more stable, and less ambiguous than excluded items. MMPIs were obtained on 90 medical and psychiatric patients, presumably of normal intelligence, and raw scores for the I R F were calculated and correlated with the scales of the full MMPI. In addition, equations that allowed prediction of full-scale scores were calculated on the initial Sam le and applied to a second sample of 60 8s with IQs between 80 and 110. !?or both samples average I R F correlations with the full MMPI slightly exceeded corres onding correlations for the MMPI-168. Also, in cross-validation the I R F siowed a greater correspondence with the MMPI in terms of clinical scale high points than did the MMPI-168. These results suggest that the I R F may function as well as available short forms with ersons of normal and near normal intelligence and that, furthermore, it o&rs romise for use with 8 s who are unable to understand the complete M M P ~.