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ERIC Number: EJ509321
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-1040-3590
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Racial Differences in Adolescent Self-Report: A Comparative Validity Study Using Homogeneous MMPI Content Measures.
Wrobel, Nancy Howells; Lachar, David
Psychological Assessment, v7 n2 p140-47 Jun 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 scales are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Measurement Techniques, Multiracial Persons, Parent Attitudes, Parents, Patients, Psychiatric Services, Racial Differences, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Urban Youth, Validity, Whites
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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