A personality questionnaire of 567 true or false statements that is frequently used to assess personality styles and types. It was developed at the University of Minnesota in 1940 and revised in the early 1990s; hence, now it is known as the MMPI-2. Its primary use is to understand the psychiatric symptoms and personality characteristics of the patient. It is also used to correlate personality variables to types of illness, critical life events, habitual behaviors, or other psychological variables.
An inventory that uses several psychiatric criterion groups to its subscales.
A test consisting of 550 statements to be interpreted by the subject; used in clinical psychology for overall personality evaluation and to determine the presence of various personality disorders, such as depression and schizophrenia.