This step represents the core process In interpretation. Mild elevations on individual scales (T = 60-65) represent tendencies or trends in the individual's personality. Interpretations should be treated cautiously with the more extreme descriptors being deleted or rephrased to represent milder characteristics. Scores in this range on the MMPI-A are highlighted by shading, thereby designating a ma rginal or transitional zone between normality and pathology. Elevations above 65 on the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A are more strongly characteristic of the individual and, with progressively greater increases, are more likely to represent core features of personality functioning. However, basing interpretations solely on specific T score elevations may be misleading because a client's demographic characteristics often exert a strong influence. For example, persons with lower educational backgrounds usually score lower on K and Mf; therefore, interpretations need to take this into account. Further more, different authors use different criteria for determining high and low scores. Some authors have used T score ranges (e.g., T = 70-80); others have defined elevated scores as the upper quartile; and still others have defined a high score as the highest in a profile regardless of other T score elevations. This issue is further complicate d because two persons with the same elevation on a scale but with quite different personal histories (e.g.; psychiatric v s. adequate level of functioning) will have different interpretations that are appropriate for them. As a result, the descriptors in the following sections on interpretation do not designate specific T score elevations. Instead, more general descriptions associated with high and low scores have been provided. Clinicians will need to interpret the accuracy of these potential meanings by taking into consideration not merely the elevations, but other relevant variables as well In addition, each of the descriptions are modal. They should be considered as possible interpretations that will not necessarily apply to all persons having a particular score. They are merely hypotheses in need of further verification. This is highlighted by the finding that somewhere in the range of 40% of computer-generated descriptors do not apply to the person being assessed (Butcher et al,; 2000).
This step represents the core process In interpretation. Mild elevations on individual scales (T = 60-65) represent tendencies or trends in the individual's personality. Interpretations should be treated cautiously with the more extreme descriptors being deleted or rephrased to represent milder characteristics. Scores in this range on the MMPI-A are highlighted by shading, thereby designating a ma rginal or transitional zone between normality and pathology. Elevations above 65 on the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A are more strongly characteristic of the individual and, with progressively greater increases, are more likely to represent core features of personality functioning. However, basing interpretations solely on specific T score elevations may be misleading because a client's demographic characteristics often exert a strong influence. For example, persons with lower educational backgrounds usually score lower on K and Mf; therefore, interpretations need to take this into account. Further more, different authors use different criteria for determining high and low scores. Some authors have used T score ranges (e.g., T = 70-80); others have defined elevated scores as the upper quartile; and still others have defined a high score as the highest in a profile regardless of other T score elevations. This issue is further complicate d because two persons with the same elevation on a scale but with quite different personal histories (e.g.; psychiatric v s. adequate level of functioning) will have different interpretations that are appropriate for them. As a result, the descriptors in the following sections on interpretation do not designate specific T score elevations. Instead, more general descriptions associated with high and low scores have been provided. Clinicians will need to interpret the accuracy of these potential meanings by taking into consideration not merely the elevations, but other relevant variables as well In addition, each of the descriptions are modal. They should be considered as possible interpretations that will not necessarily apply to all persons having a particular score. They are merely hypotheses in need of further verification. This is highlighted by the finding that somewhere in the range of 40% of computer-generated descriptors do not apply to the person being assessed (Butcher et al,; 2000).
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