Question

What do you feel are the pro's and con's of each test?

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California Psychological Inventory

Minnesota Multiphasic personality Inventory (MMPI)

Answer 1

The pros of the California Psychological Inventory; It has a measure of a person’s realization or satisfaction with their life situation which can impact on their behavior and motivation at work and home and hence help them at work and at home.

Cons of the California Psychological Inventory;

It is designed to give a measure of the way others would describe them, not how they would describe themselves.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) advantages

It is a theoretical as it has no theoretical basis

Most widely used and most researched.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) disadvantages

Lengthy

Questions are of personal nature

Ability to read and write is a must

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Advantages

Less obvious, harder to fake

May tap underlying (unconscious) psychological processes

May be effective with guarded patients and kids

May help us understand disorders in which symptoms are not immediately present

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Disadvantages

Reliability and validity

Cross-cultural issues

Complex scoring systems

Cumbersome, time-consuming