Negro vs Caucasian psychological test performance revisited.

Davis, William E.; Jones, Mark

doi:10.1037/h0037062

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“…The results suggest that even after carefully matching Hispanics and Whites for age, education, and psychiatric diagnosis, MMPI differences between Hispanics and Whites are not minimized or eliminated. In fact, these results argue against the longstanding notion that Hispanics and Blacks respond similarly to the MMPI because of a "shared minority status" or because of similar sociocultural characteristics (Davis & Jones, 1974), or that Hispanics differ from Whites in a manner similar to that in which Blacks differ from Whites. More importantly, these findings indicate that researchers and clinicians should not assume that previous MMPI findings on African Americans or other ethnic groups (e.g., Asian or Native Americans) are equally applicable to Hispanics.…”

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Hispanic-white MMPI comparisons: Does psychiatric diagnosis make a difference?

1993

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Recent research on Blacks or African‐Americans in psychiatric settings suggests that Black‐White MMPI differences are minimized or eliminated when researchers match or control for key moderator variables, including psychiatric diagnosis. This study attempted to determine whether Hispanic‐ White MMPI differences are either minimized or eliminated when Hispanics and Whites are matched on three key moderator variables —age, education, and psychiatric diagnosis. Results suggest that even after controlling for these variables, MMPI differences between Hispanics and Whites are evident. Recommendations for culturally sensitive Hispanic MMPI research are presented.

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Hispanic-white MMPI comparisons: Does psychiatric diagnosis make a difference?

1993

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“…Separate discriminant analyses for White and Black patients, with the criterion of either anger or psychosis, were performed. The 14 predictors were the 11 MCMI personality scales and 3 other subject variables-age, intelligence, and years of educationthat were included because of past reported significant relations in objective assessment of psychopathology (Davis & Jones, 1974;Hyer, Harkey, & Harrison, 1986; Watson, Davis, & McDermott, 1976). The criterion of anger or psychotic symptoms was dichotomized, so that patients who reported no symptoms were assigned to one group, and patients who reported any symptoms were assigned to the other.…”

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Accuracy of MCMI classification of angry and psychotic black and white patients

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Davis

1992

J. Clin. Psychol.

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This study compared the ability of the MCMI personality scales to accurately predict anger and psychosis in White (n = 778) and Black (n= 272) psychiatric inpatients. Race‐adjusted norms (Millon, 1984) were used to compute patients' scale scores. The MCMI successfully predicted anger and psychosis for both races (p <.001). No difference was found in accuracy of prediction between Whites and Blacks (p >.40). In addition, the scales important for prediction were similar for Whites and Blacks. The Passive‐ Aggressive Scale best predicted anger, whereas the Avoidant Scale best predicted psychosis. The results suggest that the MCMI does predict accurately two important characteristics with both Black and White patients, but some racial bias remains.

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“…Less educated blacks were considered deviant enough in their RlMPI responses to render their clinical profiles of questionable validity. The implication of these studies is that the M M P I loses discriminative power among black respondents, especially those with less than 12 years of education (3).…”

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Level of education, diagnossi and race-related differefnces in MMPI performance

1975

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MMPIs were obtained from eight groups of black and white, schizophrenic and nonschizophrenic, and highly educated and poorly educated psychiatric patients. Profiles were classified blindly by use of two rules (Sc greater than 70; Sc greater than PT). All but poorly educated blacks were classified correctly beyond a chance level. Almost half of the poorly educated black nonschizophrenics were misclassified as schizophrenic. Implications for diagnostic work were discussed.

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Negro vs Caucasian psychological test performance revisited.

Cited by 31 publications

References 10 publications

Hispanic-white MMPI comparisons: Does psychiatric diagnosis make a difference?

Hispanic-white MMPI comparisons: Does psychiatric diagnosis make a difference?

Accuracy of MCMI classification of angry and psychotic black and white patients

Level of education, diagnossi and race-related differefnces in MMPI performance

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