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Peer reviewedWrobel, Nancy Howells; Lachar, David – Psychological Assessment, 1995
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPIs) were administered to an urban mixed-race sample of 218 adolescent psychiatric patients. Wiggins scale elevations for African Americans and whites were compared, and the validity of the scales was assessed through comparison with parent observations. Implications for the MMPI-Adolescent content…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Measurement Techniques, Multiracial Persons
Peer reviewedWrobel, Nancy Howells; Lachar, David – Psychological Assessment, 1992
External correlates of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profile scales were investigated in a racially mixed urban sample of 247 adolescent psychiatric inpatients and outpatients (140 males and 107 females). Correlates included items completed by the patients' mothers. Gender plays a role as moderator of scale interpretation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Correlation, Diagnostic Tests, Mothers
