A Preliminary Report of the Tryout of MMPI on The freshmen of National Taiwan University

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, originating from Hathaway and McKinley, provided us with an objective psychometric instrument to explore the important aspects of personality (Hathaway & McKinley, 1940). It consists of 566 items with sixteen duplications. The range of the statements in the inventory is of wide variation and includes physical conditions, psychosomatic symptoms, social attitudes, family and marital factors, and psychiatric symptoms. In the original scale of MMPI, the personality traits can be evaluated on the scale of nine clinical scores: hypochondriasis, depression hysteria, psychopathic personality, masculinity-feminity, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, and hypomanic; and four validity scores: the question score, the lie score (L), the validity score (F), and the correction score (K). After twenty years' development and elaboration, 213 new scales have been worked out and applied extensively both to clinical and personnel assessment.