Two- and three-point classification of MMPI profiles in which scales 2, 7, and 8 are the highest elevations

Two-point and three-point methods of classifying MMPI profiles were compared using 174 students who sought psychological treatment at a college student mental health clinic and who generated MMPI profiles with scales 2, 7, and 8 as their highest evaluations, (or obtained two of those three scales as their two highest elevations). Behavioral correlates were determined by comparing each profile type to the remainder of the population by means of the chi2 statistic for males and females. Each two-point code type was compared to the comparable subgroup of its parent three-point code type. Important differences in interpretation were present between two- and three-point classification methods, particularly when sex of subject was considered, suggesting that method of classification and sex of subject are important variables in the accurate interpretation of college student MMPI profiles.