MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY

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Meaning:

A self-report personality inventory consisting of 550 items that describe feelings or actions which the person is asked to agree with or disagree with; many scales estimating traits and qualities of personality have been developed using MMPI items

Synonyms:

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; MMPI

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory" is a kind of...):

self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory (a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make)

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