Eight hundred volunteers, 73 percent female, 27 percent male, with a median age of 45 ( range 17-77 ) underwent a series of psychological tests including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-II, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II, Beck Depression Inventory and the Zung Depression Scale.
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Cleary said the prosecutors had told defense lawyers of one examination their experts wanted to conduct, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, but had not specified additional types of examinations because Kaczynski's lawyers had not said whether he would subject himself to any neurological examination.
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Tests such as the Rorschach inkblot test or personality tests like the MMPI ( Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ) are not commonly used for behavioural assessment because they are based on personality trait theory assuming that a person's answer to these methods can predict behaviour.
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Jackson and Messick, using factor analysis, also demonstrated that the two main factors explaining the majority of response variation on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ( MMPI ) were for social desirability and acquiescence responding ( this would also hold true for the revised MMPI-2 ).
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Thus, the researchers concluded that higher PPI scores were not associated with greater success at malingering on the PPI ( other psychopathy measures, such as the PCL and the Psychopathic Deviate scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, were used to further confirm the presence of psychopathic traits ).
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As well as including references to Dr Wiggins'circumplex models it made particular reference to his contributions to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ( MMPI ) His work was also mentioned following his death in the newsletter for the professional society he helped found, the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research.
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Since these early efforts, a wide variety of personality tests have been developed, notably the Myers Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ( MMPI ), and a number of tests based on the five factor model of personality, such as the Revised NEO Personality Inventory.
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Leary's dissertation research culminated in the development of the complex and respected interpersonal circumplex model, published in " The Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality ", demonstrating how psychologists could methodically use Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ( MMPI ) scores to predict respondents'interpersonal response characteristics, or ways that they might respond to various interpersonal situations.
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And on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a personality test whose scales measure a smorgasbord of mental pathologies, they scored the lowest of the three groups . ( One exception was the test's hypomania scale, an index sensitive to high energy and ebullient spirits, on which six very happy participants received high scores .)
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Elhai is particularly known for examining the detection of fabricated PTSD using psychological assessment instruments such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 ., . and Trauma symptom inventory For example, he developed the Fptsd scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 as a means to detect fabricated PTSD, which has demonstrated modest success .,
