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Are Special Norms for Minorities Needed? Development of an MMPI F Scale for Blacks.
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Gynther, Malcolm D.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Investigated the need for special Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) norms for Black adults. The difference between responses of Blacks and Whites to rarely endorsed items suggests that, for Blacks, this new scale may be a more accurate measure of correlates associated with endorsement of deviant items. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Black Attitudes, Blacks
Another Explanation for Black White MMPI Differences
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Witt, Philip H.; Gynther, Malcolm D. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1975
Article investigated the differences in responses of blacks and whites to the MMPI. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Blacks, Research Methodology, Semantic Differential
Moderators of Racial Differences on the MMPI.
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Rosenblatt, Arthur I.; Pritchard, David A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Multiple discriminant analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores between high-IQ White, high-IQ Black, low-IQ White, and low-IQ Black subjects yielded two significant canonical variates. Results suggest that racial differences on the MMPI do not occur in all racial comparisons but are restricted to low-IQ groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Blacks, Intelligence Differences, Personality Measures, Personality Traits
MMPI Profiles of Black Americans: Is There a Bias?
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Sturmer, Paul J.; Gerstein, Lawrence H. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1997
Reviews literature on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) racial bias since 1977. Research indicates cases in which racial bias is present and cases where it is not. Anticipates the onslaught of research on racial bias with the MMPI-2 and provides recommendations to researchers and mental-health counselors. (RJM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Racial Bias, Research Needs, Test Bias
Recidivism, Perceived Problem-Solving Abilities, MMPI Characteristics, and Violence: A Study of Black and White Incarcerated Male Adult Offenders.
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Ingram, Jesse C.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Problem Solving Inventory to 20 Black and 32 White inmates. Recidivists scored significantly higher on the impulsive scale of the Problem Solving Inventory. Demonstrated the utility of the MMPI and the PSI in discriminating between nonviolent and violent criminals. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Males, Personality Traits, Prisoners
Comparison of Negro and White Lower Class Men on the General Aptitude Test Battery and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Flanagan, John; Lewis, George – J Soc Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Blacks, Lower Class
MMPI Comparison of Black Heroin Users Volunteering or Not Volunteering for Treatment.
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Robinowitz, R.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1980
Black volunteers differed significantly, scoring higher on the Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria scales. Such differences add evidence against the addiction-prone personality hypothesis and underscore the need for evaluating the effects of voluntarism and ethnicity in personality research on drug abuse. (Author)
Descriptors: Blacks, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Ethnicity
Objective versus Subjective Responses to Abortion.
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Robbins, James M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Measured psychological sequelae to induced abortion among women pregnant out of wedlock, using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and questions specific to willingness to repeat abortion under similar circumstances. Analyses indicated no relation between objective and subjective indicators. Affectivity after induced abortion had…
Descriptors: Abortions, Affective Behavior, Blacks, Emotional Response
MMPI Score Differences among Anglo, Black, and Mexican-American Welfare Recipients.
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McGill, Jerry C. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
Investigated possible score bias on the MMPI among Blacks and Mexican-Americans who were receiving aid to families with dependent children. (Author)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups, Mexican Americans
Racial Bias in the MMPI: A Methodological Review.
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Pritchard, David A.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1980
Concludes that there is no evidence for differential validity in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) between racial subgroups and that black norms for the MMPI are premature. Criticism of these findings is also presented. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Blacks, Methods Research, Personality Measures, Predictive Validity
Ethnic Differences on the MMPI-2?
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Timbrook, Rodney E.; Graham, John R. – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Ethnic differences on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) were studied in the restandardization sample of 75 African American and 725 white men and 65 African American and 743 white women. The MMPI-2 scales were not differentially accurate in predicting relevant characteristics for both groups. (SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Ethnic Groups, Females, Group Membership
Comparative Validity of MMPI-2 Scores of African American and Caucasian Mental Health Center Clients.
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McNulty, John L.; Graham, John R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Stein, L. A. R. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The comparative validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) scores for 123 African American and 561 Caucasian clients from a community mental health center was studied by contrasting mean MMPI-2 scores and correlations between these scores and therapists' ratings. Correlations were not significantly different for racial…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Mental Disorders
The Black MMPI Profile: Interpretive Problems
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Powell, Lois – Journal of Negro Education, 1976
Suggests that when MMPI responses are secured from black samples and interpreted according to traditional actuarial or code book descriptions the questionnaire is capable of working against the welfare of man. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Norm Referenced Tests, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures
Validity of the MMPI Pd Scale Among Black Males
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Elion, Victor H.; Megargee, Edwin I. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
The validity of the MMPI Psychopathic Deviate (Pd) and Pd+.4K scales to discriminate levels of social deviance among young black male prisoners was investigated in three studies. It was concluded that Pd and Pd+.4K both validly differentiate levels of social deviance but that the norms for the scales appear to show racial bias. (Author)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Bias, Blacks, Males
MMPI Differences of Male Hispanic-American, Black, and White Heroin Addicts.
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Penk, W.E.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1981
Tested two hypotheses: one predicted that Hispanic American heroin addicts are better adjusted than White addicts; a second predicted that Hispanics characteristically are less open about expressing psychological symptoms. Both hypotheses were confirmed in multivariate analyses of variance and covariance with age, education, and socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
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