Asked by Shalyn Harrison on Sep 28, 2024
The scales on the MMPI-II have particularly low intercorrelations amongst themselves, thus showing evidence of scale purity and discriminant validity.
MMPI-II
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, a comprehensive psychological questionnaire designed to assess a variety of psychological conditions and personality attributes.
Scale Purity
Scale purity is a concept in psychometrics referring to the degree to which items on a test measure a single, coherent construct or dimension, contributing to the test's validity.
Discriminant Validity
The degree to which a measure is not correlated with other variables from which it is theoretically supposed to differ.
- Assess the validity and reliability as fundamental psychometric properties of multiple personality assessment instruments.
Learning Objectives
- Assess the validity and reliability as fundamental psychometric properties of multiple personality assessment instruments.