Personality Structure of Mexican Americans Using the Comrey Personality Scales
- 1 February 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Personality Assessment
- Vol. 47 (1) , 100-106
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa4701_12
Abstract
The Comrey Personality Scales (CPS) were used to examine the personality structure of 176 Mexican American college students. A majority of the eight factors maintained substantial loadings and corresponded closely with Comrey's normative sample as well as with Brazilian and New Zealand samples. Two factors, Conformity and Orderliness, showed the weakest fit across all four groups. Overall, the CPS shows adequate measurement properties for "normal" personality assessment among Mexican Americans and is preferable to instruments such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). However, the external validity of the CPS with clinical populations must first be determined prior to its use to assess psychopathology among Mexican Americans.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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