Racial Bias in Personality Assessment: Using the MMPI-2 to Predict Psychiatric Diagnoses of African American and Caucasian Chemical Dependency Inpatients

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-151

  Monnot, Matthew J ^a   Quirk, Stuart W ^a   Hoerger, Michael ^a   Brewer, Linda ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MMPI 2; racial bias; RC scales

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CAUCASIAN; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; OPIATE ADDICTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPATHY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VETERAN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RACE RELATIONS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 66549106461     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015316     Document Type: Article

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