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Examination of the MMPI-A for the Assessment of Psychopathy in Incarcerated Adolescent Male Offenders

130 Salem Court, Tallahassee, Florida 32301-2810, U.S.A.

Wallace A. Kennedy

Florida State University, Psychology Associates of Tallahassee, 130 Salem Court, Tallahassee, Florida 32301-2810, U.S.A.

Christopher J. Patrick

Psychology Department 1051, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, U.S.A.

David J. Partyka

The usefulness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) for classifying adolescent offenders based on psychopathy was investigated with 101 male juvenile delinquents committed to a state training school. It was hypothesized that MMPI-A scales could indicate psychopathy as classified by Hare's Psychopathy ChecklistRevised (PCL-R). Using two-group discriminant function analysis on 15 MMPI-A scales to predict psychopathy as measured by the PCL-R, the results indicated that although statistically the MMPI-A may be usefulfor the prediction ofpsychopathy in a population of chronic, severe, juvenile offenders, practically there are no significant differences between MMPI-A scores of psychopaths and nonpsychopaths. Further, there is some question concerning the ability of the MMPI-A to differentiate chronic delinquents from "normal" adolescents.

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