Evidence for the congruence between the Chinese MMPI-2 and MMPI in testing mental disorder patients

This study investigated the degree of concordance between the Chinese MMPI-2 and MMPI in clinical scales. A sample of 138 patients (include schizophrenia, mood disorder, neurosis).was tested on a MMPI/MMPI-2 Complex Inventory. Results indicated that (1) the scores of MMPI-2 and MMPI clinical scales were highly correlated, (2) the concordance rate for total code types between MMPI-2 and MMPI is about 88.7%,for other code types, the concordance rates range from 46.8% to 68.8%, and (3) for 2-point code types which are well-defined, the concordance rate between MMPI-2 and MMPI is 84.3%.