Utilizing the PK scale of the MMPI-2 to detect posttraumatic stress disorder in college students.

This study investigated the utility of the PK scale of the MMPI-2 with college students. Results indicated that the PK scale, when combined with DSM IV criteria, does discriminate between college students who obtain a score of 65 or higher and those who score below 65.

Immigration reform and the browning of America: tensions, conflicts and community instability in metropolitan Los Angeles.

"Tensions, conflicts, and community instability associated with heightened immigration--especially of nonwhite immigrant groups--threaten to balkanize America. This article highlights the root causes of the growing opposition to both immigrants and U.S. immigration policy--the nativist backlash, presents a typology of the community-level conflicts that have arisen as a consequence of heightened immigration--legal and illegal--to the United States over the last 30 years, and outlines the conditions under which diversity can be brought to the forefront as one of society's strengths.... The 1992 Los Angeles County Social Survey (LACSS)...provides insights into the nature and magnitude of intergroup stereotyping and prejudice in a community in which large numbers of immigrants have settled."

Determinants of genocide fear in a rural Texas community: a research note.

Data were collected via a questionnaire administered to females 15-44 years of age and their most significant male partner from a 7% stratified random sample in Waller County, Texas. Analysis revealed that five independent variables combined explained 19% of the variance in race genocide fear (R2 = .19; p less than .01). The most important predictors of genocide fear were sex (Beta = .33; p less than .001) and education (Beta = .14; p less than .01).

PIP: Most studies of the fears of American blacks about genocide have been done among urban populations. The present study explores the relative importance of social background factors as predictors of genocide fears among rural blacks. The study was done among a 7% stratified random sample (104 households) of women aged 15-44 and their most significant male partner in a southeastern Texas county in which over 1/2 the population is black. An interview schedule consisted of precoded and openended items and was administered by a team matched for sex and race. Various indicators of genocide fear were shown to be related to selected background characteristics, including family planning practice, sex, age, racial identification and education. Further analysis revealed these 5 variables combined explained 19% of the variance in race genocide fear, the most important predictors being sex and education. The present study suggests taht the same conditions that lead to fears of genocide in urban conditions exist in rural areas, which may serve as an obstacle to creating meaningful family planning strategies (in that family planning itself may be viewed as an act to perpetrate genocide). Future research should continue to monitor social factors and include psychological and economic predictors in terms of their influence on genocide fears and resultant family planning behavior among American blacks.