Psychological Assessment in Sports Psychology Ch: 16

Question 1

What is the Sixteen Personality Questionnaire?

Answer 1

a standard measure of 16 enduring personality traits based on factor analysis. The factors include warmth, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule-conscientiousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractness, privateness, apprehension, openness to change, self-reliance, perfectionism, and tension.

Question 2

What are enduring personality traits?

Answer 2

those most descriptive of a person.

Question 3

What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?

Answer 3

the most commonly used standardized measure of enduring personality traits, criterion based and consisting of 550 items in 8 clinical categories with answers of yes, no, or can’t say.

Question 4

What are the three enduring tests of personality traits?

Answer 4

MMPI, 16PF, & EPI.

Question 5

Who designed the MMPI?

Answer 5

Psychologist, S.R. Hathaway & Physician J.C. McKinley.

Question 6

What were the 8 original scales from the MMPI?

Answer 6

Hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, and hypomania.

Question 7

What is a hypochondriac?

Answer 7

someone obsessed with their physical health.

Question 8

What does hysteria mean?

Answer 8

patients tend to convert psychological stress into physical symtomology.

Question 9

What is a psychopathic deviate?

Answer 9

patients with history of antisocial behavior.

Question 10

What is paranoia?

Answer 10

suspicious, grandiose, persecuted patients.

Question 11

What is a psychasthenia?

Answer 11

anxious, OCD, guild ridden.

Question 12

What is hypomania?

Answer 12

patients displaying mood elevation, excessive activity, and unusual distractibility.

Question 13

What were the two additional clinical scales of MMPI?

Answer 13

Masculinity-Femininity (MF) & Social-Introversion (SI).

Question 14

To clear the MMPI from as many inaccurate results as possible, what response set was created?

Answer 14

Lying (L), Frequency/Infrequency (F), & Correction (K).

Question 15

What is the most commonly used personality test?

Answer 15

The MPPI, being translated into all European languages.

Question 16

What are the flaws with the MPPI?

Answer 16

Overused, correlating questions, imbalanced, too general, therefore unreliable.

Question 17

Who conducted the first sports study using the MPPI?

Answer 17

LaPlace in 1954, used MPPI on major and minor baseball teams.

Question 18

Who said “the MPPI has demonstrated merit as an instrument of measurement of personality traits… in PE and athletics”

Answer 18

Booth who measured freshman and varsity athletes & teams and individuals.

Question 19

Who used the MPPI to see if stereotypes based on football position were accurate?

Answer 19

Williams and Youssef in 1972.

Question 20

What did Morgan find in his study of collegiate wrestlers with the MPPI?

Answer 20

Those who entered as freshmen and went onto win two or more letters had a greater aptitude to adjust.

Question 21

Who did Morgan and Johnson follow for four years with the MPPI starting in 1978?

Answer 21

50 college oarsmen for four years, finding that those who obtained at least two varsity letters had much better profiles on the MPPI.

Question 22

In 1975, Johnsgard, Ogilvie, and Merritt decided to take a more variable group of parachutists, racecar drivers, and football players for the MPPI. What did they find?

Answer 22

The tests were very similar in results.

Question 23

What was the most recent notable study of the MPPI?

Answer 23

Geron, Furst, and Rotstein took a large group of males, some athletes and others not. There was a clear correlation between those who were athletes and those who were not.

Question 24

Is the MPPI still used today?

Answer 24

The MPPI has seen its better days in sport psychology assessment, but the instrument served an important historical function in promoting personal assessments.