Cross-cultural comparison of performance on the multicultural neuropsychological scale between participants from Argentina and the United States of America.

Abstract

Objective: In a previous article the performance of two samples from Argentina and the USA on the Multicultural Neuropsychological Scale (MUNS) was compared. Although the results indicated no significant differences between them, the samples were rather small. In this article two larger samples from each country including two different locations in the USA were included. Moreover, additional psychometric cross-cultural analyses are presented.

Methods: Age and education-matched Argentinian (n = 80) and American (n = 50) samples of healthy adults were administered the MUNS. Argentinians were administered the Spanish version of the MUNS while North Americans were administered the English version.

Results: Results showed that t-tests revealed no significant differences between the samples across all subtests scores. Most correlations between demographic variables and subtest scores were non-significant across samples, with the exception of two weak correlations in the Argentinian sample. For both groups, scores were not significantly different between the male and female participants.

Conclusions: The results from this study confirm previous findings obtained with smaller samples suggesting some evidence of scalar equivalence across both versions of the MUNS.