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Papers including psychopathology, psychotherapy, behaviour therapy, cognitive therapies, behavioural medicine, health psychology, community mental health, sexual health, child development, psychological assessment, psychophysiology, neuropsychology, etc. It is important to note that, in almost all cases, the magnitude of these differences was small and not clinically significant.International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology publishes manuscripts with a basic and applied emphasis, involving both theoretical and experimental areas contributing to the advancement of Clinical and Health Psychology. A number of MMPI-2 scales evidenced bias reflecting minor underprediction of psychopathology in African Americans. To identify potential bias, the authors conducted 65 step-down hierarchical multiple regression analyses, predicting conceptually relevant clinical criteria from either MMPI-2 clinical or content scales for each gender. These were generally consistent with differences between the groups, indicated by the available extratest criterion data. Mean differences were found on several MMPI-2 validity and clinical scales. It is important to note that, in almost all cases, the magnitude of these differences was small and not clinically significant.ĪB - This study investigated ethnic differences on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) in 229 African American and 1,558 Caucasian psychiatric inpatients.
N2 - This study investigated ethnic differences on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) in 229 African American and 1,558 Caucasian psychiatric inpatients. T1 - A comparison of MMPI-2 validity in African American and Caucasian psychiatric inpatients