Wiggins Content Scales and the MMPI-2

Kohutek, Kenneth J.

doi:10.1002/1097-4679(199203)48:2<215::aid-jclp2270480211>3.0.co;2-z

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“…Suddenly, without any preparation, they were placed before a fait accompli, depriving them of a certain amount of information on the MMPI scales as well as barring their access to the new normative sample of the MMPI-2 (see Parisien, 1999, p. 266 and 274-278;Parisien, 2014, p. 276, 279, and 299-300). After several external pressures, it was not until 3-7 years later (see Kohutek, 1992bKohutek, , 1992aBrophy, 1996) that additional standards were relaxed, i.e. made available, for certain scales disregarded with no explicit reason by the new authors.…”

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From MMPI to MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-3: The abandonment of subterfuge

Parisien¹

2023

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The conceptual-factorial scales of the MMPI-2-RC were constructed in divorce from the empirical categorizing strategy used for the original MMPI and its updated version, the MMPI-2. They were then integrated as a modern asset into a brand new instrument also based on factor analysis, the MMPI-2-RF. The latter was first introduced as a parallel version rather than a substitute for the MMPI/MMPI-2. However, workshops and webinars were multiplied, extolling the superiority of the new test. These subterfuges were then abandoned with the announcement of an MMPI-3, in the fall of 2020. This article, both historical and critical, takes stock of the MMPI-2, comments on the incongruous appearance of the "restructured scales" RC, summarily describes the restructured form MMPI-2-RF, and denounces the dreaded but predicted discarding of the MMPI-2 in favor of the MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-3, heretical avatars of MMPI that have recently surfaced in the market.

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Section: Answer By Ben-porath (2018) and Its Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From MMPI to MMPI-2-RF/MMPI-3: The abandonment of subterfuge

Parisien¹

2023

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The location of items of the Wiggins Content Scales on the MMPI-2

Kohutek¹

1992

J. Clin. Psychol.

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The decision to exclude the Wiggins Content Scales from the MMPI‐2 has hindered and, in many cases, may have prevented the ability to utilize the data collected over 25 years. There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI‐2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI. This report identifies the location and direction for scoring of items from the Wiggins Content Scales that appear on the MMPI‐2. Preliminary data are presented and recommendations for utilizing these scales are offered.

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