McKinley & Hathaway (1940) published the Hypochondriasis or Hs Scale as a means of understanding physical symptoms reported by the patient. They also developed the Hysteria or Hy scale (McKinley & Hathaway, 1944) to measure the expression of physical complaints in the context of hysteroid personality characteristics (e.g. denial). Hundreds of articles have been published on the use of the MMPI ...

In this comment, I address a number of the points raised in the reviews of the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical (RC; Tellegen et al., 2003) Scales by Nichols (2006/this issue) and Rogers, Sewell, Harrison, and Jordan (2006/this issue), and I advocate for changes in assessment validation research. There is little evidence that the "syndromal complexity" Nichols ascribes to the original MMPI-2 (Butch...

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 is a broadband measure of psychopathology and personality that has a long tradition in assessment of medical patients. Beginning in the 1940’s the MMPI was used in the study of psychological factors in medical conditions and an extensive research base for the MMPI, and its successor the MMPI-2, in medical applications has developed. The current ...

The MMPI-2 restructured clinical (RC) scales replace the traditional clinical scales in the MMPI-2 restructured form (MMPI-2-RF). Few studies to date have examined the MMPI-2 RC scales in traumatic brain injury (TBI) litigants. We compared MMPI-2 validity, clinical, and RC scales profiles of 83 mild, complicated mild, and moderate/severe TBI litigants who were tested for effort. Past research s...

Users of multi-scale tests like the MMPI-2 tend not to interpret scales one at a time in a way that would correspond to standard scale-level reliability information. Instead, clinicians integrate inferences from a multitude of scales simultaneously, producing a descriptive narrative that is thought to characterize the examinee. This study was an attempt to measure the reliability of such integr...