Detection of Malingered Psychosis with the MMPI-2
| Autor: | William I. Dorfman, Steven N. Gold, Robert Pensa |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Psychosis Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Discriminant function analysis Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Malingering medicine Personality Psychiatric hospital Personality test Psychology Psychiatry media_common |
| Zdroj: | Psychotherapy in Private Practice. 14:47-63 |
| ISSN: | 0731-7158 |
| DOI: | 10.1300/j294v14n04_04 |
| Popis: | This study investigated the utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) in the detection of malingered psychosis. Twenty males diagnosed from a county psychiatric hospital were matched for age and education with twenty male volunteers. Every subject was administered the full 567-itcm MMPI-2. In addition, the malingering subject received training materials on psychosis along with instructions and monetary incentives to malinger. Significant group differences were found on a newly created F-Fb Index, which yielded a hit-rate of 70%. Additional t-tests also Revealed significant group differences on scales Infrequency (F) and Bizarre Mentation (BIZ) along with Subtle-Obvious Difference Score and the F-Fb index, yielding hit-rates in the 80-90% range. Scale Back-Page Infrequency (Fb) did not yield significant group differences, but this may have been a result of a stringent alpha level. Finally, a discriminant function with scales F, Fb, F-K, BIZ, and S-0 yielded a hit-rate of 92.5%. ... |
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