The Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) is sensitive to instructed feigning, but not to genuine psychopathology in male forensic inpatients
| Autor: | Thomas Merten, Daniël van Helvoort, Harald Merckelbach |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Section Forensic Psychology, RS: FPN CPS IV |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male 050103 clinical psychology Malingering Neuropsychological Tests Self-report symptom inventory SECONDARY GAIN feigning forensic patients Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) AMERICAN ACADEMY Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences symptom over-reporting STRUCTURED-INVENTORY SCALE Inpatients Psychopathology 05 social sciences Discriminant validity Middle Aged POLICY Symptom validity Forensic science Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Symptom validity test TESTS Self Report MALINGERED NEUROCOGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION BASE RATES Psychology Cut-point RESPONSE BIAS Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychology, Development and Cognition. Section D: The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 33(6), 1069-1082. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISSN: | 1385-4046 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13854046.2018.1559359 |
| Popis: | Objective: The Self-Report Symptom Inventory (SRSI) is a new symptom validity test that, unlike other symptom over-reporting measures, contains both genuine symptom and pseudosymptom scales. We tested whether its pseudosymptom scale is sensitive to genuine psychopathology and evaluated its discriminant validity in an instructed feigning experiment that relied on carefully selected forensic inpatients (n = 40). Method: We administered the SRSI twice: we instructed patients to respond honestly to the SRSI (T1) and then to exaggerate their symptoms in a convincing way (T2). Results: On T1, the pseudosymptom scale was insensitive to patients’ actual psychopathology. Two patients (5%) had scores exceeding the liberal cut point (specificity = 0.95) and no patient scored above the more stringent cut point (specificity = 1.0). Also, the SRSI cut scores and ratio index discriminated well between honest (T1) and exaggerated (T2) responses (AUCs were 0.98 and 0.95, respectively). Conclusions: Given the relatively few false positives, our data suggest that the pseudosymptom scale of the SRSI is a useful measure of symptom over-reporting in forensic treatment settings. |
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