UTILITY OF THREE ABBREVIATED MMPIs WITH PSYCHIATRIC OUTPATIENTS

Abstract

Evidence substantiating the need for an abbreviated form of the MMPI is presented. An investigation is conducted to assess the comparative utility of three recently developed abbreviated MMPIs with psychiatric outpatients. The similarity of the group profiles within each sex as well as the highly significant scale correlations suggest that each of the three abbreviated MMPIs corresponds fairly accurately to the standard form for these subjects as a group. However, investigations of the profile pairs for individual subjects consistently found that the Faschingbauer abbreviated MMPI permitted the most accurate conclusions concerning the validity, high points, and general elevation of the corresponding standard MMPI. Numerous deficiencies were evident when using either the Midi-Mult or Hugo abbreviated MMPI especially with regard to classification analysis concerning validity.