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MMPI‐2 with mexican psychiatric inpatients: Basic and content scales
Author(s) -
LucioG.M. Emilia,
Palacios Hugo,
Durán Consuelo,
Butcher James N.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199912)55:12<1541::aid-jclp11>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , normative , personality , psychiatry , clinical psychology , personality test , construct validity , sample (material) , psychometrics , personality disorders , test validity , social psychology , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , chromatography
This paper presents the results of a study of the Mexican Spanish version of the MMPI‐2 with a clinical sample of 233 patients who were diagnosed as having psychological disturbances or personality disorders, according to DSM‐III R criteria. Inpatient scores were obtained from four psychiatric hospitals, located in Mexico City. The scores of the patients were compared with those of Mexican college students, which is the largest Mexican normative sample collected to date, consisting of 813 men and 1,137 women. Results of this study show that the MMPI‐2 can accurately differentiate between normal and non‐normal groups in Mexican populations and demonstrate that the inventory maintains its construct validity in this clinical sample. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 55: 1541–1552, 1999.