MMPI and student teaching

Abstract

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory was administered to 56 women students immediately before entrance into student teaching. Reliabilities, and intercorrelations of sub-tests were also in-investigated. Findings were that: (1) the reliabilities of the sub-tests are fairly high with the exception of "paranoia" and "mania," (2) the intercorrelations between sub-tests are low, but only a few pairs of sub-tests have diagnostic value insofar as the present sample is concerned, and (3) in general, the subtests have very little value for predicting success in student teaching (with university supervisors' ratings as the criterion). However, there were some differences between high and low groups on "hysteria," "psychopathic deviate," and "psychasthenia." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)