The MIPS Revised test helps assess normally functioning adults who may be experiencing difficulties in work, family, or social relationships.
Human resource specialists, social work and career counselors, private practice clinicians, and other professionals use this test in a variety of settings, including:
- Individual counseling
- Relationship, premarital, and marriage counseling
- Employee selection, as a pre-offer screening tool
- Employee assistance programs
- Leadership and employee development programs
- Addresses three key dimensions of normal personalities: Motivating Styles, which helps assess the person’s emotional style in dealing with his/her environment; Thinking Styles, which helps examine the person’s mode of cognitive processing; and Behaving Styles, which helps evaluate the person’s way of interrelating with others.
- Clinical Index helps screen for the possible presence of mental disorders in persons who present as normal.
- With only 180 true/false items, the test can be completed in less than 30 minutes on average.
The test provides separate norms for adults and college students, and for both separate and combined genders.
- The adult sample consisted of 1,000 individuals (500 females, 500 males) between the ages of 18 and 65, stratified according to the U.S. population by age, race/ethnicity, and education level.
- The college sample consisted of 1,600 students (800 males, 800 females), selected from 14 colleges and universities to be representative of a college student population in terms of ethnicity, age, year in school, major area of study, region of the country, and type of institution.