Effect of symptom information and intelligence in dissimulation: an examination of faking response styles by inmates on the Basic Personality Inventory
| Autor: | Jarrod S. Steffan, Daryl G. Kroner, Robert D. Morgan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Malingering Deception Psychometrics Adolescent Personality Inventory media_common.quotation_subject Intelligence 050109 social psychology Coaching Diagnosis Differential Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic medicine Personality Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychiatry Somatoform Disorders Applied Psychology media_common business.industry Prisoners 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged medicine.disease Faking good Clinical Psychology Psychotic Disorders 0509 other social sciences Personality Assessment Inventory Psychology business Clinical psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | Assessment. 14(1) |
| ISSN: | 1073-1911 |
| Popis: | This study employed the Basic Personality Inventory (BPI) to differentiate various types of dis-simulation, including malingered psychopathology and faking good, by inmates. In particular, the role of intelligence in utilizing symptom information to successfully malinger was examined. On admission to a correctional facility, 161 inmates completed the BPI under standard instructions and then again under instructions to fake good (n = 55) or to malinger psychotic (n = 35), posttraumatic stress disorder (n = 36), or somatoform (n = 35) psychopathology. Unlike symptom information, intelligence evidenced some support for increasing inmates’ effectiveness in malingering, although there was no relationship between higher intelligence and using symptom information to successfully evade detection. Overall, the BPI was more effective in detecting malingered psychopathology than faking good. Implications for the detection of dissimulation in correctional and forensic settings are discussed. |
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