Scale creation: designed to detect unintentional under reporting -ģ0 items empirically selected to identify patients who had significant psychopathology but had MMPI-2 clinical scales in the normal range. The MMPI-2-RF (Tellegen & Ben-Porath, 2008/2011), and its foundational RC Scales (RC Tellegen et al., 2003), departed substantially from the MMPI and MMPI-2 scale construction methods, resulting in: a new, and to this point, largely untested psychometric instrument, which does not yet have the wealth of empirical support and interpretive. could also indicate healthy coping, self-adequacy/defensive facade MMPI 2 or else the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 can be considered as the revised version of the original Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). However, there is a key difference between these two tests. Very low scores interpretable as long as other. Key Difference MMPI vs MMPI 2 MMPI and MMPI 2 refer to two psychological tests used in mental health to assess the personality of individuals. Hi: present in a positive light, defensiveness. Moderate score indeterminate, could be consistent or inconsistent, compare score to TRIN, F, FB, and Fp. Moderate: college educated/upper class, well adjusted, capable of dealing with problems, under stress, may be unwilling to seek help This test had been used initially for identification of people having psychological difficulties. This is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2). Low: exaggerate psychopathology, acknowledging limited resources to deal with problems MMPI-2 is a standard assessment too, in which there would be measurement of behavior in an objective manner. Charnley McKinley, a neuropsychiatrist, began to develop an instrument for use in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Hospital that they described as an objective aid in the routine psychiatric case work-up of adult patients and as a method of. Hathaway, a clinical psychologist, and J. Assess tendency to control and limit disclosure A Brief History of the MMPI Instruments The Original MMPI In 1937, Starke R. MMPI-2 has non gendered for Non-gendered norms: Non-Gendered scores were created in response to a court case where the argument was that the MMPI.