A Comparison of the PAI and MMPI-2 As Predictors of Faking Bad in College Students

Blanchard, Dorothy D; McGrath, Robert E.; Pogge, David L.; Khadivi, Ali

doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa8002_08

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“…Both McCullaugh' (2011) andWood' (2008) also used the PAI, a 334-item, self-report, personality inventory widely used in research on malingering. Positive findings for the PAI capacity to identify malingering has been reported consistently in the literature (e.g., Archer et al, 2006;Blanchard et al, 2003;Sellbom, Bagby, & Rogers, 2008). …”

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The Development of the Inventory of Problems–29: A Brief Self-Administered Measure for Discriminating Bona Fide From Feigned Psychiatric and Cognitive Complaints

Viglione

Giromini

Landis

2016

Journal of Personality Assessment

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This article describes the development of the Inventory of Problems-29 (IOP-29), a new, short, paper-and-pencil, self-administered measure of feigned mental and cognitive disorders.Four clinical comparison, simulation studies were conducted. Study 1 (n = 451) selected the items and produced an index of potential feigning. Study 2 (n = 331) scaled such index to produce a probability score, and examined its psychometric properties. Study 3 tested the generalizability of Study 2's findings with two additional samples (ns = 128 and 90). Results supported the utility of the IOP-29 for discriminating bona fide from feigned psychiatric and cognitive complaints. Validity was demonstrated with mild traumatic brain injury, psychosis, PTSD, and depression. Within the independent samples of studies 2 and 3, the brief IOP-29 performed similarly to the MMPI-2 and PAI, and perhaps better than the TOMM.Classifications within these samples with base rates of .5 produced sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive power, and negative predictive power statistics of about .80. Further research is needed testing the IOP-29 in ecologically valid field studies.

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Section: Cross-validation Of the False Disorder Probability Scorementioning

confidence: 66%

The Development of the Inventory of Problems–29: A Brief Self-Administered Measure for Discriminating Bona Fide From Feigned Psychiatric and Cognitive Complaints

Viglione

Giromini

Landis

2016

Journal of Personality Assessment

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“…The RDF has been demonstrated as the most sensitive of the three to dissimulation (Morey & Lanier, 1998), but each index has different strengths and weaknesses (Morey, 2003). The PAI's indices have proven useful in detecting negative response bias in college populations (Blanchard, McGrath, Pogge, & Khadivi, 2003), at least in analogue dissimulation studies. For example, the PAI has been shown sensitive to analogue malingerers' efforts to feign psychopathology such as Major Depressive Disorder in college populations (Morey, 1996a).…”

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Symptom Exaggeration by College Adults in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disorder Assessments

Sullivan

May

Galbally

2007

Applied Neuropsychology

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To test the hypothesis that sub-optimal effort detected by one popular symptom validity measure, the Word Memory Test (WMT), should be interpreted as symptom exaggeration, the authors examined attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning disorder (LD) assessment data collected from healthy adult patients over the past four years at one mid-size Southeastern college. They conducted six tests of this hypothesis, drawing upon extant research. Rates of apparent symptom exaggeration comparable to those found in medicolegal settings (e.g., personal injury cases), particularly in the context of ADHD evaluations, were found. WMT scores were positively correlated with intellectual and neurocognitive test scores, and negatively correlated with self-report symptom inventory scores. Measures of negative response bias embedded in one common self-report measure of psychopathology (the Personality Assessment Inventory) were not correlated with WMT performance. Unattended WMT administrations led to somewhat higher failure rates than were found when the examiners were present in the room during all phases of the test's administration. In light of considerable secondary gain motives in this population, the authors conclude that poor effort as evidenced by low WMT scores implies symptom exaggeration and not other factors in these assessments. The routine inclusion of empirically supported symptom validity measures in these evaluations is recommended, and future research directions are suggested.

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“…Moreover, some studies which provide simulated contexts for impression management often use several different sets of instructions (Bagby et al 1994). Some studies have utilized consistent, specific instructions for faking-good and faking-bad simulations (Blanchard et al 2003;Bagby et al 2002) but no published studies have examined the specific instructions proposed for use in the present study. The present study proposes to examine faking-good in the police employment setting.…”

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Impression Management in Police Officer Candidacy on the MMPI-2

Weiss

Cain

et al. 2009

J Police Crim Psych

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It is well documented that candidates in employment situations attempt to present overly positive pictures of themselves that may be inaccurate. Police officer candidacy situations are not an exception. They are more critical to the public welfare, however, because of the sensitive nature of police officers as an interface between government and the community. For this reason, the study of impression management using devices that are employed in police selection is of great importance. This study used 36 college students to whom the MMPI-2 was administered, first under standard conditions (control condition) in which the students responded as they ordinarily would and second, under a set of special instructions (experimental condition) which instructed them to respond as if they were police officer candidates. The two profiles were compared. As hypothesized, the Lie (L) and Correction (K) scales were elevated in the experimental condition. An inspection of the clinical scales revealed that all tended to be lower in the experimental condition than in the control condition, with the exception of Masculinity-Femininity (Mf), Psychopathic Deviate (Pd), Paranoia (Pa), and Hypomania (Ma). Implications of these findings for officer candidate selection are discussed.

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A Comparison of the PAI and MMPI-2 As Predictors of Faking Bad in College Students

Cited by 47 publications

References 23 publications

The Development of the Inventory of Problems–29: A Brief Self-Administered Measure for Discriminating Bona Fide From Feigned Psychiatric and Cognitive Complaints

The Development of the Inventory of Problems–29: A Brief Self-Administered Measure for Discriminating Bona Fide From Feigned Psychiatric and Cognitive Complaints

Symptom Exaggeration by College Adults in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disorder Assessments

Impression Management in Police Officer Candidacy on the MMPI-2

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