Linguistic translation of psychological assessment tools: a case study of the MMPI-2.
This article examines the effect of cultural differences on translation accuracy outcomes for the translation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (S. R. Hathaway & J. C. McKinley, 1940) into Farsi for use in Iran.
Nezami
Elahe
E
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Alhambra, CA 90089-7798, USA. nezami@usc.edu
Zamani
Reza
R
DeFrank
Ginny
G
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008950:MMPI; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics