Abstract :
In contemporary psychology, personality assessment knows few national or cultural boundaries.
Psychological tests developed in one country are often translated and adapted into cultures
that might appear to be greatly different from the country of origin. In this article, I address
the factors that are important to international test adaptation and examine problems that
can adversely affect cross-cultural test research programs. I address qualities important for verifying
the accuracy and adequacy of cross-cultural assessment. I review the extensive adaptation
of the MMPI (Hathaway & McKinley, 1940) and MMPI–2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham,
Tellegen,&Kaemmer, 1989), the most frequently used personality measure. I highlight several
contemporary research trends in international personality assessment.
