Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Scales as predictors of psychiatric diagnoses

Abstract

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) is an alternative version of the MMPI-2 and is useful for the differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. This study sought to assess the relationship between MMPI-2 Scale scores and psychiatric diagnoses, and to identify the scales that best predicted that a diagnosis would be assigned. The sample was comprised of participants who were administered the MMPI-2 between 2001 and 2010 at a university-based psychological services center, and participants were divided into diagnostic categories based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition, Text Revision diagnoses. Categories with enough participants to conduct statistical analyses were examined; these categories included participants who were diagnosed with substance-related disorders, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and participants who were not given a psychiatric diagnosis.

Characterization of different types of anxiety disorders in relation to structural integration of personality and adverse and protective childhood experiences in psychotherapy outpatients – a cross-sectional study

“…Interestingly, impaired personality functioning due to comorbid personality disorders has also been linked to treatment-resistance of anxiety disorders, and patients seem to pro t from intensi ed treatment taking into account aspects of personality functioning [62]. However, other studies could not con rm a relationship between anxiety disorders and impaired personality functioning [33,34].…”

“…For instance, an impairment of self-directed and interpersonal functioning has been suggested to be relevant for several subtypes of anxiety disorders [31,32]. Nonetheless, other studies did not nd a relationship between anxiety disorders and impairment of personality functioning [33,34]. Also, it is unclear to what extent different subtypes of anxiety disorders might be affected by impaired personality functioning and what speci c subdomains of personality dysfunction might be involved.…”

Screening of Mood Symptoms Using MMPI-2-RF Scales: An Application of Machine Learning Techniques

“…The RC scale has significantly improved discriminative validity compared to the original clinical scale. Among them, researchers have studied RCd and RC9 to measure mood symptoms more specifically [ 74 , 75 ]. Typically, the RCd scale measures depressive symptoms and the RC9 scale measures hypomanic symptoms.…”

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–3 (MMPI-3) assessment of bipolar spectrum disorders.

“…A robust literature on the assessment of unipolar depressive symptoms using the MMPI-2-RF (e.g., Haber & Baum, 2014;Ingram et al, 2021) and MMPI-3 (Sellbom et al, 2021;Whitman, Tylicki, Mascioli, et al, 2021) has also accumulated. For example, Haber and Baum (2014) reported that EID, RCd, RC2, and SFD scores were most strongly correlated with depressive disorder diagnosis in a university-based psychological clinic setting.…”

“…A robust literature on the assessment of unipolar depressive symptoms using the MMPI-2-RF (e.g., Haber & Baum, 2014;Ingram et al, 2021) and MMPI-3 (Sellbom et al, 2021;Whitman, Tylicki, Mascioli, et al, 2021) has also accumulated. For example, Haber and Baum (2014) reported that EID, RCd, RC2, and SFD scores were most strongly correlated with depressive disorder diagnosis in a university-based psychological clinic setting. Ingram et al (2021) reported moderate to very large associations between MMPI-2-RF scale scores (including EID, RCd, RC2, and INTR, as well as SUI, HLP, SFD, MLS, SAV, and SHY) and other measures of depression among veterans.…”