Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Book

This data can be used to draw conclusions about the test taker’s psychopathy or to interpret psychological characteristics compared to the norm. The most common treatment application of the test by providers is establishing or reevaluating care for an ambiguous clinical picture. For psychiatric management, this aids in creating generalizable data relevant to a plethora of possible conditions.

The MMPI was developed in the 1930s and published through the University of Minnesota in 1942 by Stuart Hathaway and Charley McKinley using visitors of patients at the University of Minnesota hospital as a base sample in both theorizing constructs of psychiatric illness and fielding the instrument. Testing is administered through 567 true or false items using a booklet with an accompanying answer sheet. The responses are then hand-scored and plotted on an X-Y graph; a separate version is used for male and female respondents.