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Does the Disorder Matter? Investigating a Moderating Effect on Coached Noncredible Overreporting Using the MMPI-2 and PAI
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Veltri, Carlo O. C.; Williams, John E. – Assessment, 2013
The use of psychological tests to help identify the noncredible overreporting of psychiatric disorders is a long-standing practice that has received considerable attention from researchers. The purpose of this study was to experimentally determine whether feigning specific psychiatric disorders moderated the influence of coaching on the detection…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Mental Disorders, Coaching (Performance), Undergraduate Students
The Validity and Utility of the Positive Presentation Management and Negative Presentation Management Scales for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory
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Sellbom, Martin; Bagby, R. Michael – Assessment, 2008
Schinka, Kinder, and Kremer developed "validity" scales for the "Revised NEO Personality Inventory" (NEO PI-R; Costa & McCrae) to detect underreporting--the Positive Presentation Management (PPM) Scale and overreporting--the Negative Presentation Management (NPM) Scale. In this investigation, the clinical utility of these…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Validity, Personality, Patients
Development and Validation of a Response Bias Scale (RBS) for the MMPI-2
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Gervais, Roger O.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Wygant, Dustin B.; Green, Paul – Assessment, 2007
This study describes the development of a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) scale designed to detect negative response bias in forensic neuropsychological or disability assessment settings. The Response Bias Scale (RBS) consists of 28 MMPI-2 items that discriminated between persons who passed or failed the Word Memory Test…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Response Style (Tests), Measures (Individuals), Persuasive Discourse
Response Style versus Crime-Specific Cognition: Predicting Disciplinary Adjustment and Recidivism in Male and Female Offenders with the PICTS
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Walters, Glenn – Assessment, 2007
Four samples were used to evaluate the incremental validity of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) General Criminal Thinking (GCT) score and Proactive (P) and Reactive (R) composite scales vis-a-vis response style in predicting disciplinary adjustment and recidivism. Purified Confusion (Cf[subscript p]) and…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Criminals, Validity, Recidivism