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    Steps For Scoring MCMI - 3

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    1) The document outlines the steps for scoring the MCMI-3 personality assessment, which includes calculating raw and BR scores, making adjustments for disclosure, anxiety/depression, inpatient status, and denial/complaint, and ranking the results into a personality code. 2) Adjustments are made to counteract tendencies to underreport or overreport symptoms and to correct for biases like when feeling anxious/depressed. 3) The final ranked personality and syndrome codes indicate the level of clinically significant personality traits or disorders and syndromes present based on the BR scores.

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    1) The document outlines the steps for scoring the MCMI-3 personality assessment, which includes calculating raw and BR scores, making adjustments for disclosure, anxiety/depression, inpatient status, and denial/complaint, and ranking the results into a personality code. 2) Adjustments are made to counteract tendencies to underreport or overreport symptoms and to correct for biases like when feeling anxious/depressed. 3) The final ranked personality and syndrome codes indicate the level of clinically significant personality traits or disorders and syndromes present based on the BR scores.

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    1) The document outlines the steps for scoring the MCMI-3 personality assessment, which includes calculating raw and BR scores, making adjustments for disclosure, anxiety/depression, inpatient status, and denial/complaint, and ranking the results into a personality code. 2) Adjustments are made to counteract tendencies to underreport or overreport symptoms and to correct for biases like when feeling anxious/depressed. 3) The final ranked personality and syndrome codes indicate the level of clinically significant personality traits or disorders and syndromes present based on the BR scores.

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    1) The document outlines the steps for scoring the MCMI-3 personality assessment, which includes calculating raw and BR scores, making adjustments for disclosure, anxiety/depression, inpatient status, and denial/complaint, and ranking the results into a personality code. 2) Adjustments are made to counteract tendencies to underreport or overreport symptoms and to correct for biases like when feeling anxious/depressed. 3) The final ranked personality and syndrome codes indicate the level of clinically significant personality traits or disorders and syndromes present based on the BR scores.

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    The document outlines the steps for scoring the MCMI-3 personality assessment and discusses validity checks and adjustments that are made during the scoring process.

    The document outlines 7 steps for scoring the MCMI-3: 1) Calculate validity, raw, and BR scores, 2) Apply disclosure adjustment, 3) Apply anxiety-depression adjustment, 4) Apply inpatient adjustment, 5) Apply denial-complaint adjustment, 6) Rank scales, 7) Interpret codes.

    Disclosure, anxiety-depression, and inpatient adjustments are made to account for response biases. A denial-complaint adjustment is also made.

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    Steps for Scoring MCMI -3

    Step: 1 - Validity

    1. Look for the Validity Scale score, if it's greater than 1, the profile is not valid and
    can't be scored or interpreted.

    Step: 2 - Calculating the Raw Scores and BR Scores

    2. Calculate Raw Scores for Raw Data using Appendix B (Scale Composition and Item
    Weight).
    3. Calculate Raw Score for X (Raw X = Addition of Scores for 1-8B, however for 5;
    multiply the score by 0.67 before addition.)
    4. Find BR Scores from Appendix C.1 and C.2, both are different for males and
    females.

    Step: 3 - Disclosure Adjustment: The disclosure adjustment is designed to counterbalance


    the tendency of some clients to broadly underreport or overreport personal attributes and
    symptoms. When the raw Disclosure scale score is below 61, points are added to the initial
    BR scores of all personality and clinical syndrome scales. Points are subtracted from these
    scales if BR is above 123.

    5. Calculate Adjustment using Raw X score Table (Disclosure Adjustment Values)


    and adjust scores for 1-8B, S-PP if required.

    Step: 4 - A/D Adjustment: An anxiety-depression adjustment was developed to correct for


    the inclination of patients to overreport problematic features when feeling acutely anxious
    and/or depressed.

    6. Calculate for the A/D column with the help of the following criteria as applicable.

    If A > 75 then A-75,


    if D > 75 then D-75,
    if A, D > 75 then (A-75) + (D-75)

    7. Look up Adjustment Values in Tables 2, 3 or 4. Depending on inpatient/non-


    inpatient criteria and duration of Axis 1 Symptoms, adjust the scores for 2B, 8B,
    C, 2A and S.

    Step: 5 - Inpatient Adjustment: The inpatient adjustment was created to offset the tendency
    of some recently hospitalized clients to underreport the severity of their emotional problems.
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    8. Determine the setting and Axis I duration for the client and whether an adjustment
    should be applied.

    9. Calculate Inpatient Adjustment based on Table 5 (Inpatient Axis 1 Duration


    Status) if applicable and adjust scores for SS, CC, and PP accordingly.

    Step 6: D/C Adjustment: A denial-complaint adjustment is made to correct for the bias of
    some individuals to underreport the severity of their personality attributes.

    10. Make D/C and rank Inpatient scores on a scale of 1-8B (Follow the order 2B, 6A,
    8B, 6B, 2A, 8A, 7, 4, 5, 3, 1 in case of a tied score).

    11. If scales 4, 5, and 7 receive a rank of 1, add 8 to the inpatient BR score of that
    scale.

    12. Note the final BR Score after all the Adjustments (Make sure that scores for any
    scale don't go below or above the range of 0-115 during adjustments).

    Step 7: Ranking: 24 Clinical codes are divided into 4 main sections, each followed by
    double slashes

    13. List the code in order of magnitude for the clinical personality pattern scales.
    Scales with scores of BF 85 or higher are located to the left of (""),
    BR of 75-84 are followed by (*), BR of 60-74 are followed by (+),
    BR of 35-59 are followed by ("), and close set with double slashes.

    14. For the additional 3 sections of code, rank only for scores exceeding BR 74 receive
    (**) and BR exceeding 84 (*)

    Example: PERSONALITY CODE: 6A ** 4 * 5 6B 8A + 7 8B 3 " 2A 1 2B ' ' // - ** - * //

    SYNDROME CODE: - ** B T * // - ** - * //

    Cutoff, code type and interpretation


    MCMI code-type: for the personality scale
     BR scores of 75 to 84 signify the presence of clinically significant personality traits.
     BR scores of 85 or above suggest the presence of a disorder.

    For the syndrome scale


     BR scores of 75 to 84 indicate the presence of a syndrome.
     BR scores of 85 or above denote the prominence of a particular syndrome.

    Note:
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    The report is invalid if any of the following conditions are true:


    The raw V score is greater than 1.
    The raw X score is less than 34 or greater than 178.
    All 11 Clinical Personality Patterns (1 through 8B) base rate scores are less than 60.

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