Abstract
The MMPI has received extensive use as a clinical assessment instrument with adolescent respondents. Despite increasingly widespread clinical utilization of this instrument, there have been few research investigations concerning MMPI characteristics of adolescent respondents. The purpose of this paper is to present the available literature on this topic and to identify salient issues surrounding the MMPI response patterns of adolescents. Specifically, issues related to conversion of raw scores to adolescent and adult norms are presented with emphasis on historical trends, clinical correlate data and factor analytic findings. Typical response characteristics from adolescent clinical samples are delineated for scoring procedures using adult and adolescent norms. The complexity and controversy surrounding selection of appropriate norms for adolescents are described and the need for further research on establishing clinical correlates of adolescent codetypes is underscored.
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