In this study, we compared the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) performance of male university students and incarcerated criminal offenders in Mexico. Our aim was to determine whether the MMPI-2 can effectively differentiate between these two distinct groups on scales that are reflective of antisocial behaviors. Our expectations were highly confirmed across the three sets of scales that we considered: the validity and clinical, content, and supplementary scales. Criminal offenders obtained higher or more pathological scores on such scales as Infrequency (F), Schizophrenia (Sc), MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale (MAC-R), Fears (FRS), and so on. Overall, these findings support further research with such target populations as prison inmates in Mexico and other countries in Latin America.

Performance of 82 Colombian, 87 Mexican, and 96 Venezuelan university students and adult community dwellers on Spanish translations of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) were compared. Findings suggest more comprehensive research is required on applications of the MMPI-2 in Latin America and greater consideration of the roles of culture and nationality.

Performance of 82 Colombian, 87 Mexican, and 96 Venezuelan university students and adult community dwellers on Spanish translations of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) were compared. Findings suggest more comprehensive research is required on applications of the MMPI-2 in Latin America and greater consideration of the roles of culture and nationality.

Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans together make up one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States. In 2011, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, Hispanics of Mexican origin accounted for 11 percent of the U.S. population. For the purposes of this study, we focus on a large subset of this demographic: those who have come directly from Mexico and have been living in the U.S. most of their lives or who were born in the United States of Mexican-born parents. Immigration and being of recent immigrant descent produce transitions that can be associated with numerous problems throughout the life span, depression being the most common (Mendes de Leon and Markides 1988), but also including anxiety, substance abuse, behavioral problems at home, work, and school, perceived or actual discrimination, and negative expectations of the future (Vega and Alegria 2001). Mexican Americans have a higher rate of depression (6.3%) than non-Hispanic white individuals (4.8%) (National Institute of Mental Health 2011). Despite this statistic, the subtypes of depression, notably anaclitic and introjective (Blatt 1974), have not been well studied among this population.Anaclitic depression, also called dependency, is a depression focused mainly on interpersonal issues, such as helplessness and feelings of loss and abandonment. Introjective depression, also called self-criticism, is a depression arising from a harsh, punitive superego and is focused primarily on concerns about self-worth, feelings of failure, and guilt. The present study explored the depressive experience of the Mexican population from a developmental perspective, focusing on Blatt's psychoanalytic dimensions of depressive experience. In addition, we considered the