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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI),
a commonly used psychologic test that includes over 500 statements for interpretation by the subject, used clinically for evaluating personality and detecting various disorders in adults. The current version is the MMPI-2. The adolescent version is the MMPI-A.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
A widely used true-false test for evaluating a person’s psychological and personality ‘profile’

inventory [in´ven-tor″e]
a comprehensive list of personality traits, aptitudes, and interests.
California Personality inventory CPI; a self-report, true-false questionnaire designed to measure aspects of personality style. It is generally used in counseling situations or for less than severe psychopathology.
Millon Clinical Multiaxial inventory MCMI; a true-false, self-report questionnaire designed to produce a profile of the personality style and structure underlying mental disorders.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality inventory MMPI; a psychological test in questionnaire form in which the answers to true-false statements show dimensions of the subject's personality structure and provide comparison with responses made by persons in various diagnostic categories.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
MMPI Psychology A widely used true-false test for evaluating a person's psychological and personality 'profile'. See Psychological testing.


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