The Personality Inventory for Youth: Validity and comparability of English and Spanish versions for regular education and juvenile justice samples

    Authors

    C. Negy; D. Lachar; C. P. Gruber;N. D. Garza

    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Pers. Assess.

    Keywords

    Psychology, Clinical; Psychology, Social

    Abstract

    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.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Personality Assessment

    Volume

    76

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2001

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    250

    Last Page

    263

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000168904500008

    ISSN

    0022-3891

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