Summary: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Have you ever wonder what some personality test consist of, are they good to rely on, and are they structured well? Well the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory as known as MMPI test is one of the longest test conducted. It is based on a true and false answer test, so there is no right or wrong way of doing it. This test consists of its validity, clinical, and content scales. I will be emphasizing on the last five clinical scales, which are paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, hypomania, and social introversion. The Paranoia Scale and all the other four scales were originally develop to identify patients with certain symptoms that correspond to that particular scale. Paranoia is a thought processed believed to be heavily influenced

According to Framingham (2011), “The Psychasthenia Scale is intended to measure a person’s inability to resist specific actions or thoughts, regardless of their maladaptive nature.” The scale measures a patient obsession, compulsion, anxiety level or phobias. Not only does it measure that but it also taps into abnormal fears the patients might have. This diagnostic term is no longer used today but it is known as the Obsession-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This part of the test has forty-eight items. People that score high on this part of the test are consider

It is a mental disorder where a person has an abnormal behavior and cannot recognize what is real. People that are consider schizophrenic have symptoms like auditory hallucinations, false beliefs, and their social engagement is very poor. These symptoms begin to show roughly around their young adulthood year for men and late adulthood years for women. People with this mental disorder tend to live about ten to twenty-five years less than an average person and about .3-.7% of people are affected by it during their lifetime. According to Bengston (2006), “Nearly one-third of those diagnosed with schizophrenia will attempt suicide.” Schizophrenia does not only affect the ability to think but also usually contributes with chronic problems with behavior and emotion. This part of the test has seventy-eight items and is the hardest to interpret. People that score high on this test are consider