Ethnic comparability of the MMPI in pain patients

✍ Scribed by David V. Nelson; Diane M. Novy; Patricia M. Averill; Leigh A. Berry

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 940 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199609)52:5<485::aid-jclp1>3.0.co;2-n

✦ Synopsis

The MMPI basic validity and clinical scales' patterns of 295 White-, Africanand Latino-American pain patients were compared. Mean group differences across ethnic groups on scales L, F, K, Mf, and Si were revealed in multivariate analysis of covariance for females, while differences across ethnic groups on scales F, K, Mf, Sc, Ma, and Si were revealed for males. In the univariate follow-up analyses of covariance, significant main effects were obtained for ethnicity along with education and (occasionally for males) duration of pain. Various high-point, two-point, and other profile patterns were examined and notable genderlethnic group differences were found. The pattern of intercorrelations of the MMPI scales mean T scores with various demographic and clinical characteristics suggested some notable divergence across subgroups on certain correlates of the pain experience.