%0 Journal Article
%T Relativismo cultural del Modelo de Personalidad de Millon en Am¨Śrica Latina: Un estudio con adolescentes
%A Vinet
%A Eugenia V.
%J Interdisciplinaria
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this article deepens on the statistical and interpretative analysis done with four personality patterns from the millon adolescent clinical inventory (maci - millon, 1993). these patterns (submissive, dramatizing, egotistic, and conforming) have presented, in different studies done with latin-american adolescent samples,a psychometric behaviour different from the one we shall expect in agreement with millon's theory. to do this, the data from the maci's chilean normative study was revised deeply. a sample of 807 adolescents, aged 13 through 19, divided by sex and also divided into a non consulting group (200 males and 206 females), and a clinical group (212 males and 189 females), was selected. all participants responded the maci and the minnesota multiphasic person ality inventory for adolescents (mmpi-a, butcheret al., 1992). with the maci scales data, a serie of statistical analysis for diagnostic validity (hsu, 2002) that included cohen's effect size (d),a percentage of non-overlap of the two distributions (u1), areas under receiver operating characteristic (roc) curves, and sensibility and specificity analysis, were run through successive stages. first, results confirmed that the scales submissive, dramatizing, egotistic and conforming scored significantly higher in the non-consulting groups than they did in the consulting groups, this finding confirmed that submissive, dramatizing, egotistic and conforming scales presented a counter-theory behaviour. second, the same set of analysis allowed to determine cutting point scores that had the capability for discriminating among participants coming from the non-consulting and the consulting groups. later, the mmpi-a clinical scales data were analysed through a set of manovas and anovas drawing significant differentiation between the healthy functioning and disorderly functioning groups that were created by dividing the sample on the basis of cutting point scores from each scale. these analyses also confirmed the coun
%K millon's model
%K latin-american culture
%K maci
%K adolescents..
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1668-70272010000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en