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| Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2003): |
A comparison of the PAI and MMPI-2 as predictors of faking bad in college students.
Full Abstract
Both the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2; Butcher et al., 2001) and Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) offer a large set of scales devoted to the identification of response styles. This study directly compared the effectiveness of the 2 inventories as indicators of overreporting. The 2 measures were administered to 52 college students instructed to fake bad under conditions describing either a forensic (n = 24) or psychiatric (n = 28) setting as well as to 432 psychiatric patients. Results indicated that the MMPI-2 F - K index and Fp Scale were the best single indicators of a faking bad response style and that the MMPI-2 scales were the better indicators as a set. However, the PAI scales demonstrated a significant level of incremental validity over the MMPI-2 indicators in every analysis conducted. The findings suggest that either inventory offers an effective approach to the detection of overreporting, and administering both inventories can enhance the accuracy of prediction further.
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Author/s: Blanchard, Dorothy D (DD); McGrath, Robert E (RE); Pogge, David L (DL); Khadivi, Ali (A);
Affiliation: School of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Katonah, New York, USA. ddblanch(-atsign-)earthlink.net
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of personality assessment (J Pers Assess), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 80 (issue 2) : pp 197-205
Dates: Created 2003/04/17; Completed 2003/09/08; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12700022, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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