Detecting Feigned Cognitive Impairment With Schretlen's Malingering Scale Vocabulary and Abstraction Test
| Autor: | Henry Otgaar, Harald Merckelbach, Marko Jelicic, Alfons van Impelen |
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| Přispěvatelé: | RS: FdR Strafrecht en Criminologie, Section Forensic Psychology, RS: FPN CPS IV, RS: FdR Institute MICS |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
050103 clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject ACCURACY performance validity 050105 experimental psychology Malingering Malingering Scale Intellectual disability medicine Semantic memory 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Abstraction Psychiatry Applied Psychology STRUCTURED-INVENTORY media_common 05 social sciences PERFORMANCE medicine.disease Response bias Test (assessment) SYMPTOM VALIDITY BIAS Scale (social sciences) malingering Psychology SIMS response bias |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 35(5), 712-724. HOGREFE HUBER Publishers |
| ISSN: | 1015-5759 |
| Popis: | Abstract. Schretlen’s Malingering Scale Vocabulary and Abstraction test (MSVA) differs from the majority of performance validity tests in that it focuses on the detection of feigned impairments in semantic knowledge and perceptual reasoning rather than feigned memory problems. We administered the MSVA to children ( n = 41), forensic inpatients with intellectual disability ( n = 25), forensic inpatients with psychiatric symptoms ( n = 57), and three groups of undergraduate students ( n = 30, n = 79, and n = 90, respectively), asking approximately half of each of these samples to feign impairment and the other half to respond genuinely. With cutpoints chosen so as to keep false-positive rates below 10%, detection rates of experimentally feigned cognitive impairment were high in children (90%) and inpatients with intellectual disability (100%), but low in adults without intellectual disability (46%). The rates of significantly below-chance performance were low (4%), except in children (47%) and intellectually disabled inpatients (50%). The reliability of the MSVA was excellent (Cronbach’s α = .93–.97) and the MSVA proved robust against coaching (i.e., informed attempts to evade detection while feigning). We conclude that the MSVA is not ready yet for clinical use, but that it shows sufficient promise to warrant further validation efforts. |
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