The Personality Inventory for Youth: Validity and Comparability of English and Spanish Versions for Regular Education and Juvenile Justice Samples

In this study we examined the comparability of the Personality Inventory for Youth (PIY; Lachar & Gruber, 1993, 1995)-Spanish version to its English counterpart among bilingual Mexican American male and female high school students (n = 120), and among incarcerated bilingual Mexican American male...

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Published in:Journal of personality assessment 2001-04, Vol.76 (2), p.250-263
Main Authors: Negy, Charles, Lachar, David, Gruber, Christian P., Garza, Neil D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Biological and medical sciences
Educational Status
English version
Female
High schools
Humans
Juvenile Delinquency - psychology
Juvenile offenders
Language
Male
Medical sciences
Mexican American people
Personality Inventory
Personality Inventory for Youth
Personality tests
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reproducibility of Results
Sex Distribution
Spanish version
Students
Techniques and methods
USA
Validity
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Summary:In this study we examined the comparability of the Personality Inventory for Youth (PIY; Lachar & Gruber, 1993, 1995)-Spanish version to its English counterpart among bilingual Mexican American male and female high school students (n = 120), and among incarcerated bilingual Mexican American male adolescents (n = 52). Results indicated that language (English vs. Spanish) was not associated with a significant effect on the PIY scales or subscales for male adolescents in the juvenile justice facility, but was associated with a marginal effect for regular education adolescents; more specifically, regular education students completing the PIY in Spanish reported somewhat lower levels of symptoms than those completing the English version. Also, incarcerated males obtained significantly higher scores than regular education males on all 9 clinical and 19 out of 24 clinical subscales. Overall, the results of this study suggest that both language versions of the PIY may be applied usefully in the study and treatment of a variety of problems relevant to juvenile populations. Additional findings are discussed.
ISSN:0022-3891
1532-7752
DOI:10.1207/S15327752JPA7602_08