Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3
MMPI-3
The MMPI-3 builds on the history and strengths of the MMPI instruments to provide an empirically validated, psychometrically up-to-date standard for psychological assessment.- Publication date:
- 2020
- Completion time:
- 25-50 minutes
- Administration:
- Q-global; paper and pencil hand-scoring
- Age range:
- 18 years and older
- Qualification level:
- C
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The MMPI®-3 is a contemporary personality assessment for mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings. This newest version builds on the history and strengths of the MMPI instruments to provide an empirically validated, psychometrically up-to-date standard for psychological assessment.
Key features:
New, nationally representative English language normative sample
Updated for the first time since the mid-1980s and designed to match US Census Bureau demographic projections for 2020, the MMPI-3 normative sample includes 1,620 individuals (810 men and 810 women) ages 18 and older from diverse communities throughout the United States.
New and updated items and scales
The MMPI-3 includes 72 new and 24 updated items used to develop new scales (Eating Concerns, Compulsivity, Impulsivity, and Self-Importance) and to update existing MMPI-2-RF scales.
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Comparison groups
Descriptive data from a broad range of settings make it possible to compare an individual’s test results with relevant groups in mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings.
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Administration time
Only 25–35 minutes to administer by computer, and 35–50 minutes to administer by paper and pencil.
Comprehensive Administration Manual
The Manual for Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation provides a brief description of the background for and development of the MMPI-3, a description of the new normative sample, case illustrations, and standard procedures for administering, scoring, and interpretation.
Comprehensive Technical Manual
The Technical Manual describes the rationale for developing the test, the procedures used to fashion the scales and collect the new test norms, descriptive findings on the scales in a broad range of settings, and extensive psychometric findings. These findings include scale score reliability estimates as well as standard errors of measurement and empirical correlates in mental health, medical, forensic, public safety, and other nonclinical settings.
MMPI-2-RF literature appropriate for MMPI-3 interpretation
Detailed analyses reported in the Technical Manual indicate that interpretation of the updated MMPI-3 scales can be guided by over 450 peer-reviewed MMPI-2-RF publications.
Report features:
- Summary page facilitates standard MMPI-3 interpretation
- Comparison Groups for mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings
- A Comparison Group Generator allows clinicians to create setting-specific comparison groups
- Item-level information (i.e., test taker responses and normative/comparison group frequencies) can be tailored to clinical inquiry
- Annotations provide sources for all interpretive statements and up-to-date research references for empirical correlates
- Optional gender-neutral language for interpretive reports
The MMPI®-3 score and interpretive reports provide raw and T scores for all 52 empirically validated scales. These reports also enable users to include comparative means and standard deviations for a variety of comparison groups from mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings or to include descriptive data from their own customised comparison group.
Score report
This 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. The report is arranged in the following sections:
- Validity Scales
- Higher-Order (H-O) and Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales
- Somatic/Cognitive and Internalising Scales
- Externalising and Interpersonal Scales
- PSY-5 Scales
- Item-Level Information (customisable)
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MMPI-3 Normative Sample Overview
The following data provides a breakdown of the MMPI-3 normative sample. Select each section to expand.
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Black
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White
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Mixed Race
Age Distribution
Education
| Education Group | MMPI-3 % | 2020 Projected % | MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF % |
|---|---|---|---|
| No High School | 8.6% | 11.1% | 5.0% |
| High School | 29.0% | 29.0% | 24.3% |
| Some TAFE/Uni | 27.7% | 28.6% | 25.0% |
| Bachelor’s Degree or Higher | 34.8% | 31.4% | 45.8% |
MMPI-3 Scale Structure
The MMPI-3 includes a comprehensive range of scales grouped by function. Expand each section below to view full scale names and descriptions.
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Overreporting
Higher-Order (H-O) Scales
| EID – Emotional/Internalising Dysfunction |
Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales
| Scale | Full Scale Name |
|---|---|
| RCd | Demoralisation |
| RC1 | Somatic Complaints |
| RC2 | Low Positive Emotions |
| RC4 | Antisocial Behaviour |
| RC6 | Ideas of Persecution |
| RC7 | Dysfunctional Negative Emotions |
| RC8 | Aberrant Experiences |
| RC9 | Hypomanic Activation |
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