How to Create an MMPI Psychological Questionnaire

The MMPI is a popular psychological test that helps better understand a person’s personality. Such quizzes are often used by psychologists, HR specialists, coaches, and teachers to assess different personality traits.

On the Kwiga platform, you can easily create your own psychological questionnaire. It doesn’t have to be complicated — you can start with 3–5 key personality traits that interest you.

Before you begin creating a quiz on Kwiga, decide on the main parameters. The original MMPI evaluates different aspects of personality using ten basic scales. For a simplified version, you can select the 3–5 most important scales.

Creating a Quiz

Go to the Quizzes menu in your Kwiga account. Click the + button to create a new quiz. 

Choose Standard Quiz and enter a name in the corresponding field.

Click Create Quiz and select the MMPI Question type.

This is a special question type that lets you automatically assign letters to answers. The first answer option is automatically assigned the letter A, the second — B, and so on.

Add your question text in the appropriate field.

Add answer options and assign letters to them from the dropdown list. The platform automatically suggests A, B, C, but you can change these according to your test’s logic.

How the Scoring Works

Kwiga has a special calculation mechanism for MMPI-type questionnaires. When your quiz contains at least one MMPI question, the platform automatically performs the following steps:

1. It counts the total number of all answers with letters in the quiz.

2. It counts all the participants’ answers with letters (skipped questions are not included).

3. It calculates the percentage of each letter from the total number of answers.

Example: Suppose you have 10 questions with 2 answers each, and you use three letters: A, B, C. This gives 20 possible answers in total: A = 10, B = 5, C = 5. A participant might skip some questions — let’s say they answered 7 out of 10 and skipped 3. Their answers could be: A = 2, B = 5, C = 0. In the final report, the participant will see: A = 2, B = 5, C = 0, with the highest value (in this case, B = 5) highlighted in bold.

Recommendation: In the quiz settings, you can enable mini-navigation so participants can see how many questions remain. This is especially useful for long psychological tests. You can also set a time limit per question to encourage quick, intuitive responses.

After creating the quiz, you can add it to your course. To do this, open the desired lesson for editing and add a Practice activity. You can find a detailed guide on adding activities to lessons in our article about adding assignments.