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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

9.0
A long set of questions psychologists use to learn about a person's personality and mental health
  • noun
  • /ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə ˌmʌltiˈfeɪsɪk pərˈsɒnəlɪti ɪnˈvɛntɔri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : Inventario Multifásico de Personalidad de Minnesota
  • The psychologist administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to evaluate the patient's personality traits.
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)

Examples

  • Eighty-eight students answered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2).

    Academic text (2013)

  • In this study, the original Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was modified slightly by rewording ten items to fit the vernacular of English employed by young men and women in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The LIE Score on the PDT derives from the earlier LIE Score on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (1970).

    Academic text (2001)

  • Research shows that the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory can help diagnose various psychological disorders.

  • Many mental health professionals rely on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory as a standard tool for personality assessment.

Synonyms

MMPI
vsMinnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • Specialized
1 9.1

A set of questions that measures personality and mental health problems

is the full official title rather than the abbreviation
personality inventory
vsMinnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • Specialized
1 6.5

A list of questions that asks about a person's feelings, thoughts and behaviour

is a particular standardized test that also screens for psychological disorders
personality assessment
vsMinnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A test with questions to find out how a person thinks, feels, and behaves

is one concrete standardized questionnaire among several assessment methods
self-report personality inventory
vsMinnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • Specialized
8.1

A set of questions people answer about their own thoughts and behavior to show what kind of person they are

is a specific large standardized questionnaire that also assesses psychological disorders
self-report inventory
vsMinnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
  • Specialized
6.8

A questionnaire where people answer questions about their own thoughts, feelings or actions

focuses specifically on personality traits and psychological disorders using many questions

Surface Forms

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory singular
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories plural

Morphology

Minnesota + multiphasic + personality + inventory

The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'personality' + 'inventory' readily yields the sense of a measure or list used to assess personality, 'multiphasic' signals that it involves multiple scales or phases, and 'Minnesota' functions as a place-name origin. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words can therefore infer this is a standardized, multi-part personality test, so the meaning is derivable from the parts.

Etymology

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is named for where it was made, Minnesota, and for how it works: Multiphasic means 'many parts' and Inventory means a 'list' of questions. Because it is a long list with many parts to check different areas of someone's personality and mental health, it is used to measure personality and find possible mental health problems.