Comparison of MMPI-2 Validity Scales Among Compensation-Seeking Caucasian and Asian American Medical Patients

Tsushima, William T.; Tsushima, Vincent G.

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“…These studies focused mainly on comparing the rates of psychopathology between Asian Americans and other cultural groups as well as on within-group differences among Asian Americans. In a study of 48 Asian Americans and 109 European Americans who were referred for a psychological evaluation in a medical center in Hawaii, Tsuhima and Tsuhisma (2009) found no significant racial differences on the five validity scales in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2. Barry, Steinberg, Wu, and Potenza (2009) investigated potential differences between 144 Asian American and European American problem gamblers using a gambling helpline.…”

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Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2009.

Kim¹,

Wong²,

Maffini³

2010

Asian American Journal of Psychology

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This 2014 review of Asian American psychology is the sixth review in the series. It includes 316 articles that met the inclusion criteria established by the past five annual reviews. Featured articles were derived from three sources: 137 were generated via the search term "Asian American" in PyscINFO, 111 were generated via a search for specific Asian American ethnic groups, and 32 were generated via author searches of articles that met the inclusion criteria. The top primary topic was health and health-related behaviors, the most frequently employed study design was crosssectional, and the most studied Asian American ethnic group was Chinese. This year's review includes information on the target population of the primary topic, the age range and developmental period of participants, and whether the study design was cross-sectional or longitudinal. It also identifies top authors and journals contributing to the 2014 annual review. These new features reveal that the most common target population of the primary topic was youths; studies most commonly included emerging adults ages 18-25; cross-sectional study design was employed more often than longitudinal design; the top contributor to the 2014 review was Stephen Chen, who authored the highest number of papers included; and the Asian American Journal of Psychology generated the highest number of publications for this review. Keywords review; Asian Americans, 2014The annual review of Asian American psychology facilitates a comprehensive, year-to-year understanding of the field by summarizing the major research topics and methodology used in Asian American psychology. Comparison of multiple annual reviews reveals past, current, and emerging trends. Illuminating these trends can be informative for new and experienced scholars alike, who can utilize the reviews to synthesize past and current research. This will help them identify emerging trends in order to plan future research that will make a meaningful contribution to scholarship on Asian American psychology. The present annual review uses the format established by the past five annual reviews, with the addition of new features for future annual reviews to consider. Like past reviews, the current issue presents major trends by primary topic, methodological design, and participant characteristics (e.g., average age and ethnicity). This review contributes a developmental perspective by including age range and developmental period in our categorization of participants, and by considering cross-sectional versus longitudinal study designs. We are also the first to recognize the top authors and journal outlets in this year's review.The 2014 review of Asian American psychology includes 316 articles, more than were included in any of the past five annual reviews. A confluence of factors has contributed to the growth of scholarship on Asian American psychology. First, there is the size of the population: Asian Americans represent 5.6% of the United States population; of all racial groups in the United States, Asian American...

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2009.

Kim¹,

Wong²,

Maffini³

2010

Asian American Journal of Psychology

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“…Bianchini et al (2008) and Nelson et al (2006) did not find any group effect for gender in chronic pain patients. Broadening the issue of bias, all studies to date have also not found ethnic bias in the scale (Dean et al, 2008;Tsushima & Tsushima, 2009).…”

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The MMPI-2 Symptom Validity Scale (FBS) Not Influenced by Medical Impairment: A Large Sleep Center Investigation

Greiffenstein

2010

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The Symptom Validity Scale (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-FBS [MMPI-2-FBS]) is a standard MMPI-2 validity scale measuring overstatement of somatic distress and subjective disability. Some critics assert the MMPI-2-FBS misclassifies too many medically impaired persons as malingering symptoms. This study tests the assertion of malingering misclassification with a large sample of 345 medical inpatients undergoing sleep studies that standardly included MMPI-2 testing. The variables included standard MMPI-2 validity scales (Lie Scale [L], Infrequency Scale [F], K-Correction [K]; FBS), objective medical data (e.g., body mass index, pulse oximetry), and polysomnographic scores (e.g., apnea/hypopnea index). The results showed the FBS had no substantial or unique association with medical/sleep variables, produced false positive rates <20% (median = 9, range = 4-11), and male inpatients showed marginally higher failure rates than females. The MMPI-2-FBS appears to have acceptable specificity, because it did not misclassify as biased responders those medical patients with sleep problems, male or female, with primary gain only (reducing sickness). Medical impairment does not appear to be a major influence on deviant MMPI-2-FBS scores.

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“…Overall, however, we believe our findings suggest that ethnic differences between Asian and White Americans do not influence clinical scale scores at a level where different interpretive strategies are necessary (Tsai & Pike, 2000). However, the lack of similarity in significant differences across gender does suggest that the frequent practice in past research of using gender combined samples may not provide sufficient resolution to fully comprehend MMPI-2 scale differences between Asian and White Americans (e.g., Tsai & Pike, 2000; Tsushima & Tsushima, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These contributions include our sample being comprised of (a) a nonuniversity adult sample (Okazaki et al, 2009); (b) a nonclinical sample (Greene, 1987); and (c) a highly homogeneous sample that increases control over extraneous variables and makes interpretation more precise (Castro et al, 2008; Okazaki & Sue, 2016), which even so (d) controls for the important demographic variables of age and education (Greene, 1987; Okazaki & Sue, 2016; Timbrook & Graham, 1994). Furthermore, we were able to conduct our analyses separately by gender, which has often not been the case with past research in this area (e.g., Tsai & Pike, 2000; Tsushima & Tsushima, 2009). Within this framework, we compare for ethnic differences between Asian American and White missionary candidates and compare our Asian American sample with the MMPI-2 normative sample.…”

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MMPI-2 profiles among Asian American missionary candidates: Gendered comparisons for ethnicity and population norms.

Rosik¹,

Rosel²,

Slivoskey³

et al. 2017

Asian American Journal of Psychology

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There is currently a significant dearth of literature pertaining to the use of popular assessment instruments with ethnic minorities, including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)-2. We examined standard MMPI-2 Scale scores from a sample of 508 male (n ϭ 43 Asian Americans) and 665 female (n ϭ 71 Asian Americans) missionary candidates, comparing scale means between ethnicities by gender and, for the Asian American participants, with the gendered MMPI-2 normative samples. Our within-sample findings support the existing literature with regard to Asian Americans obtaining higher mean scores than Whites for scales F, L, and D (among women), and scale Si (both men and women), while comparison with the MMPI-2 norms supported these findings for scales L and D. Other withinsample clinical scale differences were also observed, but mean scores for all these scales were in the modal range and do not suggest an ethnically distinct interpretive strategy. Religious and candidacy influences were a plausible explanation for most of the obtained validity scale means. However, among Asian American women, L scale elevations were significantly higher and may reflect the continuing relevance of ethnic considerations in evaluating MMPI-2 profile validity among even fairly acculturated women. Thus, our findings both support some of the existent research and validate the need for further studies of specific Asian American subgroups. What is the public significance of this article?This study suggests that reasonably acculturated Christian Asian American adults do not generally need an ethnically distinct interpretive strategy for the clinical scales of the MMPI-2. However, one significant deviation from this rule for the validity scales may be the finding of elevated Lie Scale scores among Asian American women, which may represent the combined influence of religion, gender, and ethnicity.

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Comparison of MMPI-2 Validity Scales Among Compensation-Seeking Caucasian and Asian American Medical Patients

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2009.

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2009.

The MMPI-2 Symptom Validity Scale (FBS) Not Influenced by Medical Impairment: A Large Sleep Center Investigation

MMPI-2 profiles among Asian American missionary candidates: Gendered comparisons for ethnicity and population norms.

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