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- abbreviation Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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- initialism psychology Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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- noun a self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items
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Examples
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(The MMPI is a personality questionnaire that helps to identify mental-health issues in respondents.)
The Athens NEWS :: Athens, Ohio's only locally-owned newspaper :: Home Natalie Knoth 2010
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"MMPI" and "Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory" are registered trademarks owned by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.
Do You Get an 'A' in Personality? Elizabeth Bernstein 2011
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Led by Twenge, researchers at five universities analyzed the responses of 77,576 high school or college students who, from 1938 through 2007, took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, or MMPI.
Study: Students more stressed now than during Depression? 2010
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Twenge notes the MMPI isn't given only to those who seek services.
Study: Students more stressed now than during Depression? 2010
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(Many who answered the MMPI questionnaire were students in introductory psychology courses at four-year institutions.)
Study: Students more stressed now than during Depression? 2010
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I remember as a collegian taking the famed Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory MMPI, a psychological inventory which included a yes-or-no question that gave me a laugh and a shudder: "I have heard the voice of God."
Eliot Daley: My Memo To Atheists: Why I Choose God Eliot Daley 2012
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Jean Twenge identified a large number of studies of the mental health of American secondary school pupils and undergraduates where the same method (the MMPI) had been used.
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On a Pittsburgh psych office wall there hangs framed an MMPI output whose line across seven scales is 50 (+/-) 3%.
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If you can show me MMPI scores on the Democrats in Congress, proving they're all weenies, I will change my tune.
Spineless Dems or a Dem-Trifecta Driven Filibuster-Proof Congress and a Media Carrot 2009
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These same critics have pointed out that the RIM does not correlate well with the MMPI, while ignoring not only method differences between the instruments but also research showing that the RIM and MMPI correlate quite well when people respond to both instruments in an open and forthcoming manner, as opposed to being guarded and defensive on either or both.
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