Adaption of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 to Latvia
The purpose of the present investigation was to adapt the MMPI-2 for use in Latvia. The project encompassed two phases. Phase I consisted of a multi-step process of translating the MMPI-2 to Latvian. Phase II consisted of three separate investigations that examined evidence of reliability and validity of the Latvian MMPI-2. In the first study, 26 Latvian-English bilingual individuals completed both the Latvian and English version of the MMPI-2 in a test-retest format; resultant correlation data suggested that the Latvian MMPI-2 was equivalent to the U.S. version. A second study compared the MMPI-2 data from 181 female and 76 male Latvian undergraduate students with data previously collected from a sample of U.S. university students. The Latvian MMPI-2 scales demonstrated adequate internal consistency, and scale intercorrelations were similar to those observed in the U.S. Scale level analyses revealed many similarities in the basic validity, clinical and content scale score configurations. Female Latvian student scale scores were slightly higher on the D and Hy clinical scales when compared to their U.S. counterparts, and both female and male Latvian students' results revealed slight elevations above the U.S. student group data on several of the content scales. The F infrequency scale was also elevated for both Latvian females and males. None of the scales were elevated above the clinically significant T-score of 65. Principal components analysis revealed a four-component structure that paralleled the structure typically found in U.S. populations. In Study 3, MMPI-2 profiles of a group of 56 Latvian psychiatric inpatients were compared to those of the Latvian female and male students. Multiple scales were elevated well above the Latvian student data and were clinically significant. The mean MMPI-2 scale score configuration of 26 Latvian inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia was highly similar to that of a U.S. group with the same diagnosis. Implications of the results were reviewed; the minor differences observed in the Latvian student profiles were discussed in terms of possible cultural differences between Latvia and the U.S. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)
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Zinta M Sarma
(2006)
Adaption of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 to Latvia
PhD thesis.