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The MMPI-A and l3-Year-Old Inpatients: How Young is too Young?

Mark-David Janus

The Ohio State University, College of Medicine

Christopher de Groot

East Carolina University, School of Medicine

Steven M. Toepfer

The Ohio State University, Department of Human Development and Family Science

This study examined two questions in the use of the MMPI-A with 13-year-old inpatients: (a) are the profiles of 13-year-old inpatients markedly different from those produced by 14-year-old inpatients, and (b) what is the effect of scoring with standard MMPI-A norms versus Archer MMPI-A norms for 13-year-olds. Protocols from 56 13-year-old and 85 14-yearold psychiatric inpatients were analyzed. No significant differences were found for age in mean T scores, and no clear pattern of differences was found in percentage of elevations into the clinical range (T? 65) for validity, clinical, content, or supplemental scales. A strong multivariate effect was found with the use of Archer MMPI-A norms resulting in lower T-score values than when standard MMPI-A norms are used. However, univariate differences based on norms were not routinely found with statistically significant differences in only 2 of the 38 scales for males and 7 of the 38 scales for females. The two major exceptions to this finding were that the use of Archer norms versus standard MMPI-A norms resulting in significantly higher mean T scores and a significantly higher percentage of cases falling within the clinical range for Scale 1 and the depression content scale.

Key Words: MMPI-A • adolescents • personality • assessment • inpatient assessment • adolescent norms

Assessment, Vol. 5, No. 4, 321-332 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/107319119800500402
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