title: Effects of MMPI-2 and MMPI-A norms on T-score elevations for 18-year-olds.
abstract: This study examines the effects of scoring 18-year-old respondents on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents (MMPI-A) norms in terms of T-score elevations and profile configuration. Results indicate that substantial differences can occur in T-score elevations for 18-year-olds as a function of norms, with MMPI-2 norms generally producing lower validity scale values and higher clinical scale values than MMPI-A norms. These differences can range as high as 15 T-score points and resulted in different single-scale and 2-point profiles in 34% of the cases examined in this study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Southern Mississippi, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shaevel
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Archer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D010551:Personality; D015203:Reproducibility of Results