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Peer reviewedDiaz, Joseph Prewitt O.; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1984
The MMPI was translated into Puerto Rican Spanish and administered to 663 high school students and 122 mental health clients aged 15-18 years. Findings demonstrated that the MMPI, applied in a different language and to a different age group, has successfully accomplished the task for which it was originally designed. (DC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Diagnostic Tests, Puerto Ricans, Test Reliability
Peer reviewedWhitworth, Randolph H.; Unterbrink, Christian – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1994
The original MMPI was criticized as being invalid with minority populations. When the revised MMPI-2 was administered to 400 Mexican American and Anglo American college students, the groups differed significantly on most content scales and several validity and clinical scales. However, absolute score differences were not so large as to preclude…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, College Students, Ethnic Bias, Mexican Americans
