title: Comparison of two methods of MMPI-2 profile classification.
abstract: The present study investigated the extent of agreement of the highest scale method and the best-fit method in matching MMPI-2 profiles to database code-type profiles and considered profile characteristics that may relate to agreement or disagreement of code-type matches by these two methods. A sample of 519 MMPI-2 profiles that had been classified into database profile code types by these two methods was studied. Resulting code-type matches were classified into three groups: identical (30%), similar (39%), and different (31%), and the profile characteristics of profile elevation, dispersion, and profile code-type definition were studied. Profile code-type definition was significantly different across the three groups with identical and similar match profile groups showing greater profile code-type definition and the different group consisting of profiles that were less well-defined.
authors.affiliation: Western Michigan University, USA. patrick.munley@wmich.edu
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Munley
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Germain
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies