I started doing research to evaluate the effects of different norms on test results with teenagers, and this developed into the primary focus of my research across the past 40 years, i.e, the identification of the unique aspects of adolescents’ responses to the MMPI. As I began to use the MMPI with this age group, I realized that very little was known concerning how to use the test with adolescents. How did you first get involved in adolescent psychology?ĭuring my internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, I rotated onto an adolescent inpatient unit and became involved in conducting psychological assessments of adolescents.
shares details about his background in adolescent psychology and the development of this brand new test. We present the relative strengths and weaknesses of the MMPI-A short form and discuss the findings in terms of implications for attempts to shorten the item pool through the use of computerized adaptive assessment approaches.MMPI-A-RF co-author Robert Archer, Ph.D. In this investigation, we also examined single-scale and 2-point congruences found for the MMPI-A basic clinical scales as derived from standard and short-form administrations. We summarize results for the MMPI-A basic scales in terms of Pearson product-moment correlations generated between full administration and short-form administration formats and mean Tscore elevations for the basic scales generated by each approach.
We report results for both the MMPI-A normative sample of 1,620 adolescents and a clinical sample of 565 adolescents in a variety of treatment settings. In this article, we report some psychometric properties of an MMPI-Adolescent version (MMPI-A Butcher et al., 1992) short form based on administration of the first 150 items of this test instrument. Efforts to develop a viable short form of the MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1943) span more than 50 years, with more recent attempts to significantly shorten the item pool focused on the use of adaptive computerized test administration.
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