Question

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test and The California Psychological Inventory Test, What is your understanding about the test?

and what do you like or dislike about it.

Answer 1

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) has been designed to help identify; personal, social, and behavioral problems in patients. Over the years it's used has greatly expanded.

The test helps in providing relevant information for aiding in; problem identification, diagnosis, and treatment planning for a client. It is often used in job screening and other non-clinical assessments. Some of the uses are:

Criminal justice and corrections
Evaluation of disorders like; post-traumatic stress disorder, clinical depression, and schizophrenia
Identification of suitable candidates for high-risk public safety positions such as nuclear power plant workers, police officers, airline pilots, medical and psychology students, firefighters and seminary students.
Assessment of medical patients and design of effective treatment strategies, including chronic pain management
Evaluation of participants in substance abuse programs
Support for college and career counseling
Marriage and family counseling.

The California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™) assessment is a powerful tool that helps individuals improve their performance. Using a sophisticated technique for extracting detailed personality insights, it summarizes and explains; how other people and judge a person by seeing him.

One thing that I dislike about these tests is; these objective personality tests can be the very lengthy.

What I like about this type of personality test is the fact that; Objective personality tests are, the objective in which questions and answers are in a true-or-false format. This removes the bias of the scorer as it makes scoring and evaluating the data simple.