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A Factor Structure for the MMPI-A

Replication With Male Delinquents

Robert P. Archer

Eastern Virginia Medical School

P. Kevin Bolinskey

University of Virginia

Todd L. Morton

Kelly L. Farris

South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–Adolescent (MMPI-A) Structural Summary was developed as a means of simplifying the interpretation of the 69 scales and subscales of this test instrument by organizing findings around eight primary factor dimensions. The current study examined the scale-level factor structure of the MMPI-A in a large sample of 1,610 male juvenile delinquents to assess the potential usefulness of this factor structure in a delinquency population. In this attempt to replicate the MMPI-A scale-level factor structure identified by Archer, Belevich, and Elkins in the MMPI-A normative sample and by Archer and Krishnamurthy in a clinical sample, a correlation matrix of all MMPI-A scale raw scores was created for a principal factor analysis. Results from the factor analysis produced a seven-factor solution that was largely consistent with the dimensions of the MMPI-A Structural Summary. Results were also reported in terms of the frequency of elevations on Structural Summary dimensions, with particular evidence of the importance of the Immaturity factor in describing this male juvenile delinquent sample.

Key Words: MMPI-A • delinquency • adolescents • factor structure • Structural Summary

Assessment, Vol. 9, No. 4, 319-326 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1073191102238150
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