In: Psychology
Explain the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory as self report personality.
a) Hathway and McKinley developed this test as a helping tool for psychiatric diagnosis, but it also helped in identifying varieties in psychopathology.
b) It's revised version is available as MMPI-2. It consists of 567 statements.
c) The subject on whom the test is conducted has to judge each statement as 'true' or ' false'.
d) The test is divided into 10 subscales, which seek to diagnose hypochondriasis , depression, hysteria, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, mania and social introversion.
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