Ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and psychosis-proneness in a diverse sample of college students

Amir Poreh; Thomas P. Ross; Robin Hanks; Douglas R. Whitman

doi:10.1007/BF02686893

Ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and psychosis-proneness in a diverse sample of college students

Amir Poreh
, Thomas P. Ross
, Robin Hanks
, Douglas R. Whitman

Psychology

Chicago Sch. of Prof. Psychology
Wayne State University

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A sample of 915 college students completed the Perceptual Aberration, Magical Ideation, and Schizotypal Personality Scales. No statistically significant differences were found between African-American (n=209) and European-American (n=591) students on these measures, except on the Perceptual Aberration Scale (p<0.01). Additional analyses revealed that this difference was mediated by the subjects' gender and socioeconomic background. The results of the present study are consistent with previous studies that have examined the mediating role of socioeconomic background in the performance of African-Americans on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Personality Inventory (MCMI) and confirm that differences on schizotypy measures are best interpreted in the context of the sociocultural background of the subjects. © 1995 Transaction Publishers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	365-370
Number of pages	6
Journal	Current Psychology
Volume	13
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686893
State	Published - Dec 1 1994

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