Read the case below and answer the questions that follow:

A 22-year-old girl had been experiencing feelings of emptiness, lack of interest in all activities and sleep disturbances. She appears to be demanding, reckless, aggressive, and unable to delay gratification of needs. She has difficulty in managing anger and has emotional fluctuations. Her interpersonal relationships are also strained.

She believes she was doing reasonably well 3 years back and the problem worsened after her boards. She started to indulge in self-harm acts; the situation worsened whenever she had conflicts with her family. Eventually, she was advised to seek professional help for an adequate diagnosis of her mental health.

Identify the self-report measure that is best suited in this case:

MMPI (Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory)

The correct answer is Option (2) → MMPI (Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory)

Explanation:

• The girl is showing signs of serious emotional disturbances, self-harm, emotional instability, and strained relationships.

• The MMPI is specifically designed to assess psychological disorders, emotional disturbances, and maladaptive behaviors.

• The test is divided into 10 subscales, which seek to diagnose hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, masculinity-femininity, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, mania and social introversion.

Whereas:

• EPQ (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) ➔ measures personality traits like extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism (broad traits, not specific disorders).

• 16PF ➔ measures normal personality traits (not focused on mental disorders).

• MPI ➔ similar to EPQ, focuses on basic personality dimensions, not detailed clinical symptoms.