The research base, psychometric properties, and clinical uses of the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A.

Describes the revision of the instrument and summarizes some of the main features of the revised Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). Areas of discussion include goals of the MMPI restandardization, the MMPI-2 normative sample, interpretation of MMPI-2 scores, what the validity and clinical scales measure, new MMPI-2 content scales and new validity measures, and the revised adolescent form. Comments by P. Horvath and G. C. Fekken in support of the MMPI-2 are included. A list of references for more information on the MMPI-2 follows. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)