Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3

The MMPI®-3 is a contemporary personality assessment for mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings. This newest version builds on the history and strengths of the MMPI instruments to provide an empirically validated, psychometrically up-to-date standard for psychological assessment.

Key Features

New, nationally representative English language normative sample

Updated for the first time since the mid-1980s and designed to match US Census Bureau demographic projections for 2020, the MMPI-3 normative sample includes 1,620 individuals (810 men and 810 women) ages 18 and older from diverse communities throughout the United States.

Spanish language translation and normative sample 

For the first time, the adult Spanish translation of the MMPI-3 includes norms derived from a sample of 550 US Spanish speakers (275 men and 275 women). 

New and updated items and scales 

The MMPI-3 includes 72 new and 24 updated items used to develop new scales (Eating Concerns, Compulsivity, Impulsivity, and Self-Importance) and to update existing MMPI-2-RF scales. 

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Comparison groups

Descriptive data from a broad range of settings make it possible to compare an individual’s test results with relevant groups in mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings.

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Administration time

Only 25–35 minutes to administer by computer, and 35–50 minutes to administer by paper and pencil.

Comprehensive administration manual

The Manual for Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation provides a brief description of the background for and development of the MMPI-3, a description of the new normative sample, case illustrations, and standard procedures for administering, scoring, and interpretation.

Comprehensive technical manual

The Technical Manual describes the rationale for developing the test, the procedures used to fashion the scales and collect the new test norms, descriptive findings on the scales in a broad range of settings, and extensive psychometric findings. These findings include scale score reliability estimates as well as standard errors of measurement and empirical correlates in mental health, medical, forensic, public safety, and other nonclinical settings.

MMPI-2-RF literature appropriate for MMPI-3 interpretation

Detailed analyses reported in the Technical Manual indicate that interpretation of the updated MMPI-3 scales can be guided by over 450 peer-reviewed MMPI-2-RF publications. 

Manual Supplement for the US Spanish Translation

The manual supplement provides guidance on the use of the Spanish translation of the MMPI-3, developed for use in the US. Topics covered include procedures used to collect and develop norms for the Spanish version of the test, the composition of the MMPI-3 Spanish language normative sample, psychometric findings, English/Spanish equivalence analyses, and special considerations for administration, scoring, and interpretation of the Spanish version of the MMPI-3.

Report features

• Summary page facilitates standard MMPI-3 interpretation 
• Comparison Groups for mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings
• A Comparison Group Generator allows clinicians to create setting-specific comparison groups
• Item-level information (i.e., test taker responses and normative/comparison group frequencies) can be tailored to clinical inquiry
• Annotations provide sources for all interpretive statements and up-to-date research references for empirical correlates
• Optional gender-neutral language for interpretive reports

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Workshops

Pearson, in partnership with the University of Minnesota Press, offers on-demand workshops for the MMPI-3 with the option to earn Continuing Education Credits.

• Introduction to the MMPI-3 | 7 CE
• Advanced MMPI-3 Validity Scale Interpretation | 3 CE
• Use of the MMPI-3 in Preemployment Evaluations of Public Safety Candidates | 3 CE
• Diversity-Sensitive Assessment With the MMPI-3 | 3 CE

MMPI-3 Free Trial

Now’s your chance to try out the new MMPI-3 for free! Qualified professionals can receive two free clinical interpretive reports on Q-global® or Q Local® and access the first chapter of the manuals and user’s guide. Sign up today!

• MMPI-3 Manual for Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation First Chapter
• MMPI-3 Technical Manual First Chapter
• MMPI-3 User’s Guide for the Score and Clinical Interpretive Reports First Chapter

Online Learning Modules

Learn about the MMPI-3 through these complimentary online learning modules. Continuing Education Credits are not offered for viewing these modules.

Four modules offer approximately three hours of comprehensive MMPI-3 content:

• Introduction to the MMPI-3 [70 minutes]
• MMPI-3 Scales [38 minutes]
• MMPI-3 Interpretation [33 minutes]
• MMPI-3 Case Illustrations [24 minutes]

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The following resources are available for MMPI-3.

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Podcasts

• The Testing Psychologist: Journey to the MMPI-3 with Dr. Yossi Ben-Porath
• The Testing Psychologist: Remote Administration of the MMPI-3 with Dr. Dave Corey

Videos

About the MMPI-3

• MMPI-3: A New Norm (2:01)
• Advantages of the MMPI-3 (1:34)
• Resources for learning the MMPI-3 (2:26)
• Setting-specific applications (2:45)
• Administration and Technical Manuals (2:51)

Norms

• MMPI-3 Norms (1:47)
• How the MMPI-3 norms have changed (1:20)
• Spanish-Language translation and norms (1:15)

Test Development

• Preliminary investigations guiding the development of the MMPI-3 (2:34)
• Using field data to develop the MMPI-3 (1:18)

Scales

• Developing the MMPI-3 scales (1:11)
• Scale overview (1:47)
• Validity Scales (1:32)
• Higher-Order Scales (0:57)
• Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales (1:01)
• Specific Problem (SP) Scales (1:07)
• PSY-5 Scales (0:57)

Administration, Scoring, and Reporting

• Administration, scoring and reporting options (2:11)
• Police Candidate Interpretive Report (1:17)
• Interpretive guidelines (1:17)

The MMPI®-3 score and interpretive reports provide raw and T scores for all 52 empirically validated scales. These reports also enable users to include comparative means and standard deviations for a variety of comparison groups from mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings or to include descriptive data from their own customized comparison group.

Scoring and Reporting Options

Q-global Web-Based Administration, Scoring, and Reporting – Enables you to quickly assess and efficiently organize examinee information, generate scores, and produce accurate, comprehensive reports all via the web.

Q Local™ Scoring and Reporting Desktop Software - Enables you to score assessments, report results, and store and export data on your computer.

Mail-in Scoring Service - Specially designed answer sheets are mailed to Pearson and are processed within 24-48 hours of receipt, with results being returned via regular mail.

Manual Scoring – Administer assessments on answer sheets and score them yourself with answer keys and profile/record forms.

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