PROFILE GENERALIZABILITY IN THE USE OF THE MMPI WITH PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENTS.

This article focuses on profile generalizability in the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) with psychiatric inpatients. At the Hastings State Hospital in Minnesota, data were available for patients recurrently hospitalized and repeatedly tested with the MMPI. For each of 55 patients four profiles were found that reflected early and late periods in each of two successive stays. For any subsample of 10 subjects, four matrices could be constructed with call elements made up of, alternatively, the first, second, third, or fourth occurring profile.