Effects of scoring norms on adolescent psychiatric patients' MMPI profiles.
Effects of employing standard adult and age-appropriate norms on the profile elevation, patterning and classification of adolescent patients' MMPI profiles were examined. More elevated and more often psychotic profiles were obtained with adult norms. Some sex differences were observed, but patient race was not an important source of profile variation.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012737:Sex Factors