A comparison of MMPI-2 validity in African American and Caucasian psychiatric inpatients

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) was applied to 1,558 Caucasian and 229 African American psychiatric inpatients, and the results were examined for ethnic differences and test bias. Although some MMPI-2 scales exhibited bias in underpredicting psychopathology in the African American patients, in the majority of applications the differences were minor and clinically insignificant.