The MMPI and its subsequent revisions, the MMPI-2 (Butcher et al. Charnley McKinley in the 1940s and its revision by James Butcher and colleagues in the 1980s, the MMPI was the most widely used psychological test assessing personality and psychopathology (e.g., Harrison et al. Between the time it was developed by Starke Hathaway and J.
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI, Hathaway and McKinley 1943) is a self-report inventory consisting of 550 true/false items historically used to assess a test-taker’s personality, as well as their personal and social adjustment.