Date of Award
Winter 2010
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
Department
Psychology
Program/Concentration
Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology
Committee Director
Richard Handel
Committee Member
Desideria S. Hacker
Committee Member
Janis Sanchez-Hucles
Committee Member
J. D. Ball
Committee Member
Robert Archer
Abstract
This study examined comparative validity of the MMPI-A scale scores of African American and Caucasian male juvenile delinquents utilizing a step down hierarchical regression procedure proposed by Laughtenschlager & Mendoza (1986). The MMPI-A (Butcher et al., 1992) was administered to 281 African American and Caucasian juvenile delinquents while their caretakers filled out the CBCL (Achenbach, 1991; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) and DBRS (Barkley & Murphy, 1998), which were used as extra-test measures. Significant overall prediction bias was detected in 15 out of 56 regressions. Statistically significant prediction bias was found for a subset of criterion variables for Clinical Scales 2, 4, and 9, as well as Content Scales A-dep, A-hea, A-ang, and A-con and Supplementary Scale IMM. Slope bias was found for A-hea with "DSM-Oriented Somatic Problems". Statistically significant intercept bias was demonstrated for 13 out of 56 criterion variables. Overall, when statistically significant intercept bias was found, none exceeded a small effect size. Possible practical implications and directions for future research are presented.
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DOI
10.25777/h5yf-k774
ISBN
9781124299785
Recommended Citation
Wilson, Stacy N..
"Comparative Validity of MMPI-A Scales Scores in African American and Caucasian Male Juvenile Delinquents"
(2010). Doctor of Psychology (PsyD), Dissertation, Psychology, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/h5yf-k774
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/psychology_etds/327
Comments
A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculties of The College of William and Mary, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk State University, Old Dominion University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology through the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology.