ABSTRACT
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is the most widely used instrument in research on Latina/os in the United States including Chicana/os or Mexican Americans (Velásquez, Ayala, & Mendoza, 1998), surpassing use of the Rorschach Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Millon Clinical Multiaxial InventoryIII (MCMI-III), and Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). Whereas there exists only a handful of studies with instruments such as the Rorschach or PAI (even when considering the unpublished literature), there is a burgeoning body of research with the MMPI-2 (Corrales et al., 1998; Velásquez, Ayala, & Mendoza). This even extends to the MMPI-A, which is the adolescent version of the MMPI-2 (Garrido, 2000). There are more studies on Latina/os with the MMPI-2 than with other instruments, such as the Rorschach, because the MMPI-2 is an objective measure that is less likely to be influenced by the test administrator and is relatively easy to administer and score (Velásquez et al., 1997).
