title: A Prorating Method for Estimating MMPI-2-RF Scores From MMPI Responses: Examination of Score Fidelity and Illustration of Empirical Utility in the PERSEREC Police Integrity Study Sample.
abstract: The purpose of the current study was to identify Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) correlates of police officer integrity violations and other problem behaviors in an archival database with original MMPI item responses and collateral information regarding integrity violations obtained for 417 male officers. In Study 1, we estimated MMPI-2-RF scores from the MMPI item pool (which includes approximately 80% of the MMPI-2-RF items) in a normative sample, a psychiatric inpatient sample, and a police officer sample, and conducted analyses that demonstrated the comparability of estimated and full scale scores for 41 of the 51 MMPI-2-RF scales. In Study 2, we correlated estimated MMPI-2-RF scores with information about subsequent integrity violations and problem behaviors from the integrity violation data set. Several meaningful associations were obtained, predominately with scales from the emotional, thought, and behavioral dysfunction domains of the MMPI-2-RF. Application of a correction for range restriction yielded substantially improved validity estimates. Finally, we calculated relative risk ratios for the statistically significant findings using cutoffs lower than 65T, which is traditionally used to identify clinically significant elevations, and found several meaningful relative risk ratios.
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA ataresca@kent.edu.
authors.forename: Anthony M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tarescavage
authors.affiliation: Corey & Stewart, Portland, OR, USA Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Corey
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Yossef S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Ben-Porath
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004647:Employee Discipline / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016495:Police / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012449:Safety
keywords: MMPI-2-RF; MMPI/MMPI-2-RF score comparability; personnel selection; police candidates; public safety screening; range restriction