MMPI performance of Central American refugees and Mexican immigrants

Psychological Reports

Volumn 79, Issue 3 PART 1, 1996, Pages 819-824

  Clark, Shelia ^a   Lichtszajn, Jose ^b   Callahan, Wendell J ^c   Velasquez, Roberto J ^c  

^a United States International University ^*

^b ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIVIL DISORDER; EL SALVADOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REFUGEE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CIVIL DISORDERS; EL SALVADOR; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFUGEES;

EID: 0030330943     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.79.3.819     Document Type: Article

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