Supplemental Material for Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form Markers of Future Suicidal Behavior in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric

Identifying MMPI-2 Risk Factors for Suicide

2017 ◽  
pp. 114-120
Author(s):  
John J. Barreto ◽  
Roger L. Greene
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Safety Factors ◽  
Interpersonal Styles ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Risk Factors For Suicide

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) has six items (150T, 303T, 506T, 520T, 524T, and 530T) that relate directly to suicidal behavior. MMPI-2 items 506 and 520 have explicit suicidal content. When the individual endorses these two items or, better yet, any of these six items, he or she should be queried about them before leaving the clinical setting. When the individual elevates Scale 2(D) and does not endorse any of these items, the clinician needs to evaluate whether there are safety factors protecting the individual or suicidal behavior is not being reported. The MMPI-2 also identifies cognitions, moods, interpersonal styles, and treatment issues among clients that may help identify risk and safety factors for suicidal behavior.

MMPI-2 in Child Custody Litigation

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Roma ◽  
Federica Ricci ◽  
Georgios D. Kotzalidis ◽  
Luigi Abbate ◽  
Anna Lubrano Lavadera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Custody Evaluations ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Forensic Assessments ◽  
Child Custody Evaluations ◽  
Italian Women

In recent years, several studies have addressed the issue of positive self-presentation bias in assessing parents involved in postdivorce child custody litigations. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is widely used in forensic assessments and is able to evaluate positive self-presentation through its Superlative Self-Presentation S scale. We investigated the existence of a gender effect on positive self-presentation bias in an Italian sample of parents involved in court evaluation. Participants were 391 divorced parents who completed the full 567-item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 during child custody evaluations ordered by several Italian courts between 2006 and 2010. Our analysis considered the S scale along with the basic clinical scales. North-American studies had shown no gender differences in child custody litigations. Differently, our results showed a significantly higher tendency toward “faking-good” profiles on the MMPI-2 among Italian women as compared to men and as compared to the normative Italian female population. Cultural and social factors could account for these differences.

Classification accuracy of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)-Restructured form validity scales in detecting malingered pain-related disability.

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 857-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Bianchini ◽  
Luis E. Aguerrevere ◽  
Kelly L. Curtis ◽  
Tresa M. Roebuck-Spencer ◽  
F. Charles Frey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Validity Scales
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