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MMPI score differences among anglo, black, and Mexican‐American welfare recipients
Author(s) -
McGill Jerry C.
Publication year - 1980
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 - 10.1002/1097-4679(198001)36:1<147::aid-jclp2270360114>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , hypomania , psychology , paraphilia , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , demography , social psychology , personality , sexual behavior , mood , sociology , mania , bipolar disorder
Used a one‐way analysis of covariance design ( N = 179) to investigate possible score bias on the MMPI among Blacks and Mexican‐Americans who were receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children. With education treated as a covariate, no significant differences were found between Black and Anglo S s. The Mexican‐American welfare recipients differed from the Anglo S s on scales Lie, Masculinity‐Femininity, and Hypomania, and from the Black S s on scales Lie, K, and Hypomania. The suggestion was made that further attention needs to be paid to the interaction of race with economic and situational variables.