The Mini-Mult Used with French-Canadian College Students

Abstract

Kincannon's ( 5 ) 71-item abbreviation of the MMPI (Mini-Mult) has been useful with chronic ( 6 ) and acute hospitalized psychiatric patients ( 7 ) , hospitalized medical patients ( 4 ) , as well as English-speaking college students.' Since no information was found concerning the development or use of short forms of any of the many translations of the MMPI ( 3 ) , the present study attempted to explore the value of the Mini-Mult in the assessment of 15 male and 21 female bilingual French-Canadian college students ( 8 ) who completed the standard French booklet form of the MMPI ( 1 ) in individual sessions. All answer sheets were hand-scored, and raw scores for the Mini-Mult were obtained by the use of special tables provided by Kincannon (6 ) . Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients were computed between the following scales of the French Mini-Mult and the French full-scale MMPI: L, P, K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. In contrast to previous research, the present investigation yielded significantly lower correlations on 5 scale comparisons for male Ss (L, K, 1, 2, 3) and 4 for females (P, 1, 2, 3 ) . In addition, the rs (-.07 to 3 9 , Mdn rs = .61, .56 respectively) were generally much lower than those reported in earlier studies (2 , 3 ) . In fact, some were negative. These findings, although in conflict with the unpublished positive results obtained by Hewitt and Trybus', are in line with the recommendations set forth by Chylinski and Wright ( 2 ) who have suggested caution in utilizing the MMPI with Canadian Ss until proper standardization is completed.