title: Comparison of the utility of two abbreviated forms of the MMPI for psychiatric screening of the elderly.
abstract: Assessed the utility of the Faschingbauer Abbreviated MMPI (FAM) and MMPI-168 for use with the elderly. FAM and MMPI-168 items were extracted from the MMPIs of 24 older male veteran medical or alcoholic patients. The results indicate that both abbreviated forms are highly correlated with and yield similar diagnostic inferences to the standard MMPI. For this sample population, the FAM was significantly (p less than .001) more in accordance with the standard MMPI than the MMPI-168.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011594:Psychometrics