title: Reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A).
abstract: The aim of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability and internal consistency of the scales of the Spanish version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A; Butcher et al., 1992). Two samples of 939 and 109 Spanish adolescents ages 14 to 18 years were assessed with the MMPI-A in their school environment. The first sample responded to the inventory once, whereas the second sample responded to it on 2 occasions with a 2-week interval between sessions. Results showed no significant differences in means or variances between the first and the second test administration for most MMPI-A scales. Test-retest reliability ranged between .62 (Amorality, Ma(1)) and .92 (Immaturity, IMM); most correlations exceeded .70. Internal consistency values for the MMPI-A scales in the pretest and posttest were very similar overall. External validity of the MMPI-A was demonstrated through several significant correlations between its scales and YSR/11-18 syndromes and social interaction measures. The highest correlations were established between the Anxious/Depressed YSR/11-18 scale and other MMPI-A scales such as Schizophrenia (Sc), Welsh's Anxiety (A), Adolescent-Anxiety (A-anx) and Adolescent-Alienation (A-aln), and between the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale and the MMPI-A Adolescent-Social Discomfort (A-sod) scale.
authors.affiliation: Special Education Department, Sakhnin College for Teacher's Education, Sakhnin, Israel.
authors.forename: Ihab
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zubeidat
authors.forename: Juan Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sierra
authors.forename: José María
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Salinas
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rojas-García
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008950:MMPI / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D011594:Psychometrics; D012574:Schools; D013030:Spain; D013334:Students; D014175:Translating