Identifying faking bad on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent with Mexican adolescents

Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 62-69

  Lucio, Emilia ^a   Durán, Consuelo ^a   Graham, John R ^b   Ben Porath, Yossef S ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fake bad; Mexican adolescents; MMPI A

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MEXICO; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RECUMBENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MEXICO; MMPI; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0036517217     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191102009001008     Document Type: Article

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