The Classification Accuracy of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–Adolescent: Effects of Modifying the Normative Sample  

Oleh:

Hand, Cynthia G. ; Archer, Robert P. ; Handel, Richard W. ; Forbey, Johnathan D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Assessment vol. 14 no. 1 (Mar. 2007), page 80-85.
Topik: MMPI-A; assessment; adolescence
Fulltext: 80.pdf (78.6KB)

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Numerous studies have reported that the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory– Adolescent (MMPI-A) produces a high frequency of within-normal-limits basic scale profiles for adolescents with significant clinical pathology (e.g., Archer, 2005). The current study builds on the observation that the MMPI-A normative sample included participants who reported a recent history of referral for counseling or therapy services. The 193 adolescents who reported referral for counseling were removed from the normative sample and uniform T-score values were recalculated for basic clinical scale raw scores. The frequency of within-normal-limits profiles was only marginally reduced by using the revised MMPI-A norms. Furthermore, the overall hit rate, positive predictive power, and sensitivity were only slightly improved by removing normative participants referred for counseling and basing norms on the remaining 1,427 adolescents.

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