title: Personality assessment and test interpretation of Mexican Americans: a critique.
abstract: Reviews the personality test assessment of Mexican Americans. Although there is a paucity of available research there are some indications that Mexican Americans differ in response patterning on projective devices. On objective instruments, problems involving fluency in English obscure the findings. Several recommendations are offered for increasing the efficiency of these instruments for use with Mexican American clients.
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety; D008192:Deception; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011203:Poverty; D011386:Projective Techniques; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012392:Rorschach Test; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013803:Thematic Apperception Test; D014481:United States