Associations Between MMPI-3 Scale Scores and the DSM-5 AMPD and ICD-11 Dimensional Personality Traits

Abstract

The current study aimed to examine the associations between Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) scales and the dimensional personality traits contained within the ICD-11 Personality Disorder diagnosis and DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) models. The sample consisted of 489 undergraduate students, with dimensional personality traits operationalized via the Comprehensive Assessment of Traits relevant to Personality Disorder (CAT-PD). A priori hypotheses were generated for which MMPI-3 scales would be most associated with each personality trait domain, as well as individual CAT-PD scales. Zero-order correlations and regression analyses were used to examine associations between a set of hypothesized MMPI-3 scale scores and CAT-PD scale scores. The results showed a pattern of meaningful correlations supporting the majority of hypotheses. Moreover, most hypothesized scales also incremented one another in regression models predicting hypothesized PD scale scores. These findings indicate that the MMPI-3 is well situated to aid clinicians in the assessment of personality trait dysfunction from a dimensional perspective.

Examining the construct validity of the Personality Assessment Questionnaire for ICD‐11 (PAQ‐11) personality trait domains in a community sample

“…Although this finding may be indicative of the two domains that conceptually lie along one bipolar construct, it may also be indicative that the nature and wording of items within the measure designed to assess the Anankastia and Disinhibition domains in fact assess only one construct. Indeed, research with the informant version found equal support for a five‐factor solution (see Bach et al, 2020), and other research examining associations of the ICD‐11 trait domains using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory‐2‐Restructured Form (MMPI‐2‐RF; Anderson & Sellbom, 2021) and MMPI‐3 (Brown & Sellbom, 2022) indicated that the Anankastia domain was associated with a combination of high Negative Emotionality and Compulsivity but was not significantly associated with low Disconstraint, providing support for the notion that Anankastia exists as a separate domain to Disinhibition.…”

Personality dysfunction linked to future aggression in daily life: Findings from two experience sampling studies.

“…There is growing research support for the AMPD constructs expressed through the reliability and validity of AMPD measures (see Widiger et al, 2019). These dimensions also appear adequately captured through existing omnibus personality instruments, such as the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Hopwood et al, 2013; Morey, 1991) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–3 (MMPI-3; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2020), whose Personality Psychopathology 5 model closely resembles the AMPD Criterion B traits (Brown & Sellbom, 2023). Although relatively less attention has been given to using existing broadband instruments to capture Criterion A of the AMPD, researchers have found success in doing so with the MMPI set of instruments (Busch et al, 2017; Waugh et al, 2021).…”

“…There is comparatively little literature examining how the AMPD is related to violence risk. The Personality Psychopathology 5 has a scale measuring aggression, and this scale is positively correlated ( r = .44) with an antagonism scale (Brown & Sellbom, 2023). In a sample of 227 outpatients diagnosed with personality disorder (Leclerc, Savard, Vachon, Faucher, et al, 2022), self-reported aggression was positively associated with facets of negative affectivity ( r = .19, emotional lability), not associated with facets of detachment, and positively associated with facets of antagonism ( r s ranging .29–.33), disinhibition ( r s ranging .18–.45), and psychoticism ( r s ranging .26–.34).…”

The alternative model for personality disorders and violence risk: Where are we now? Where are we going?

“…Finally, there is evidence that the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5; Harkness et al, 1995) scales from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2–Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–3 (MMPI-3; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2020a, 2020b) converge to a degree with AMPD measures (e.g., J. L. Anderson et al, 2013; Brown & Sellbom, 2023) and are related to outcomes pertinent to forensic settings. For example, PSY-5 scales predict recidivism of intimate partner violence and treatment dropout (e.g., Whitman et al, 2020), violent offending and institutional violence (Gottfried et al, 2022), and probation violations (Tarescavage et al, 2014).…”