ABSTRACT
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2 Restructured Form (MMPI–2–RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008/2011; Tellegen & Ben-Porath, 2008/2011) consists of 338 items that are presently scored on 51 scales. Ben-Porath (2012) notes that the authors’ goal for the MMPI–2–RF was to represent the clinically significant substance of the MMPI–2 item pool with a comprehensive set of psychometrically adequate measures. Shortly after the MMPI–2 was published in 1989, one of the co-authors of the revised inventory, Auke Tellegen, launched an effort to address long-recognized concerns about the original Clinical Scales, which were essentially unchanged on the revised test. The product of this effort, a set of Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales (Tellegen et al., 2003), was added to the MMPI–2 in 2003 and forms the core of the MMPI–2–RF. The nine RC Scales were designed to assess major distinctive core components of the original MMPI Clinical Scales. They are augmented on the MMPI–2–RF by 33 substantive measures and 9 validity indicators that were developed to canvass the full range of constructs that can be reliably and validly assessed with the MMPI–2 item pool. A central aspect of our 1 approach to developing the MMPI–2–RF was to link the test to contemporary concepts and models of personality and psychopathology.
