Examination of the impact of ethnicity on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) fake bad scale

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1054-1060

  Dean, Andy C ^a   Boone, Kyle B ^a   Kim, Michelle S ^a   Curiel, Ashley R ^a   Martin, David J ^a   Victor, Tara L ^b   Zeller, Michelle A ^c   Lang, Yoshado K ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Fake bad scale; Malingering; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 (MMPI 2); Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FAKE BAD SCALE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALINGERING; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY 2 QUESTIONNAIRE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 57349134482     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040701750891     Document Type: Article

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