Harkness, A. R., Finn, J. A., McNulty, J. L., & Shields, S. M. (2012). The Personality Psychopathology—Five (PSY–5): Recent constructive replication and assessment literature review. Psychological Assessment, 24(2), 432–443. https://
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025830
The Personality Psychopathology—Five (PSY–5; Harkness & McNulty, 1994) is a model of individual differences relevant to adaptive functioning in both clinical and non-clinical populations. In this article, we review the development of the PSY–5 model (Harkness, 1992; Harkness & McNulty, 1994) and discuss the ways in which the PSY–5 model is related to and distinct from other 5-factor models. Using different methods and measures, the dimensions of the PSY–5 model have been constructively replicated (Lykken, 1968) by Tackett, Silberschmidt, Krueger, and Sponheim (2008) and by Watson, Clark, and Chmielewski (2008), and dimensions congruent with the PSY–5 have even been suggested for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; Krueger et al., 2011). PSY–5 Scales can be scored from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—2 (MMPI–2; Butcher et al., 2001), the MMPI—Adolescent version (MMPI–A; Butcher et al., 1992), and the Restructured Form of the MMPI–2 (MMPI–2–RF; Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008). Because the largest body of research exists for the MMPI–2-based scales, we focus our review of the literature on the MMPI–2-based PSY–5 scales (Harkness, McNulty, & Ben-Porath, 1995), but we briefly cover the small, but growing, body of MMPI–A and MMPI–2–RF PSY–5 scales research. We show that the PSY–5 research literature includes a wide variety of psychometric methodologies as well as diverse samples and clinical problems. An integrative summary reprises the theory behind each PSY–5 construct and links it to the reviewed literature. Advantages and limitations of MMPI–2-based PSY–5 scales are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)