A detailed description of the RC Scales development process is provided by Tellegen et al. The RC Scales were designed to address conceptual overlap and content heterogeneity (Loevinger, 1972 Norman, 1972). In 2008, a shorter revised version of the MMPI-2, the MMPI-2–Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2011 Tellegen & Ben-Porath, 2011) was released with the Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales (Tellegen et al., 2003) at its core. Keywords MMPI-2, MMPI-2-RF, Clinical Scales, RC Scales, personality assessment, clinical sample The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 (MMPI-2 Butcher et al., 2001) has been the most widely used and researched self-report objective test for broadspectrum clinical assessment of psychopathology and personality characteristics (Camara, Nathan, & Puente, 2000). Implications of the results, limitations, and recommendations for future research are discussed. Overall, the findings indicate that consistent with previous findings, the RC Scales generally exhibit comparable to improved psychometric properties over the Clinical Scales.

Furthermore, external analyses revealed comparable or improved convergent validity (with the exceptions of Antisocial Behavior and Ideas of Persecution among men), and mostly greater discriminant validity. Results indicated that in most instances the RC Scales demonstrated equivalent or better internal consistencies and improved intercorrelation patterns relative to their clinical counterparts.

Participants were administered the MMPI-2 and were rated by their therapists on a 188-item Patient Description Form. Psychometric Evaluation of the MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF Restructured Clinical Scales in an Israeli SampleĪssessment 1–12 © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: /journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1073191114555884 Ībstract The current study cross-culturally evaluated the psychometric properties of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 (MMPI-2)/MMPI-2–Restructured Form Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales in psychiatric settings in Israel with a sample of 100 men and 133 women.

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