Department of Psychology, University of Otago.
Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University.
Psychol Assess. 2021 Dec;33(12):1153-1168. doi: 10.1037/pas0001049. Epub 2021 Jul 29.
A major goal in the development of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF), and subsequently, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) was linking the instrument to contemporary models of psychopathology. The present study evaluated whether the higher order structure of MMPI-3 scales, and in particular, the 26 Specific Problems as well as RC6 and RC8 (markers of thought disorder) scales aligned with the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) model. For this purpose, a large diverse mental health sample ( = 1,537) and a male prison inmate sample ( = 452) were used to capture a diverse range of psychopathology. Confirmatory factor analyses generally supported the six HiTOP spectra in both samples, albeit with some important qualifications. Associations between latent factor scores and conceptually relevant external criterion measures further supported the validity of this model. Furthermore, Goldberg's sequential hierarchical factoring approach was used to evaluate the structure of MMPI-3 SP and RC6/RC8 at descending levels of the hierarchy. Again, most of the HiTOP spectra were replicated. The structures for the mental health and prison samples were generally similar with substantive differences being linked to their respective contexts. Overall, the results indicate that the hierarchical organization of the MMPI-3 scales is generally consistent with the extant psychopathology literature, which constitutes good support for overall construct validity of the scales. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
明尼苏达多相人格测验-2 形式（MMPI-2-RF）和随后的明尼苏达多相人格测验-3（MMPI-3）的一个主要目标是将该工具与当代精神病理学模型联系起来。本研究评估了 MMPI-3 量表的高阶结构，特别是 26 个特定问题以及 RC6 和 RC8（思维障碍的标志物）量表，是否与精神病理学的分层分类法（HiTOP）模型一致。为此，使用了一个大型的、多样化的心理健康样本（n=1537）和一个男性监狱囚犯样本（n=452），以捕捉广泛的精神病理学。验证性因素分析普遍支持两个样本中的六个 HiTOP 谱，尽管存在一些重要的限制。潜在因素分数与概念上相关的外部标准测量之间的关联进一步支持了该模型的有效性。此外，还使用戈德堡的顺序层次因子分析方法来评估 MMPI-3 SP 和 RC6/RC8 在层次结构下降层次上的结构。同样，大多数 HiTOP 谱都得到了复制。心理健康和监狱样本的结构总体上相似，实质性差异与各自的环境有关。总的来说，这些结果表明，MMPI-3 量表的层次结构与现有的精神病理学文献基本一致，这为量表的整体结构效度提供了良好的支持。
