Deriving a measure of test-taking defensiveness.

Hanley, Charles

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“…Messick, 1959). Although this and some other reported relationships are somewhat equivocal because the measures of desirability used were partially confounded with acquiescence, e.g., Edwards' SD Scale and Hanley's Ex Scale, high correlations have also been reported between~fr{PI scales and desirability measures having a balanced number of true and false items (Edwards, 1957;Hanley, 1957;Wiggins & Rumrill, 1959).…”

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“…Edwards, 1957;De, Seto & Kuethe, 1959;Fordyce, 1956;Hanley, 1956;Hanley, 1957;Taylor, 1959;loTiggins & Rumrill, 1959). Fordyce (1956, for example, has noted a marked similarity between loadings on the largest MlY"1PI factor from vlheeler, Little, and Lehner t s (1951) psychiatric sample and correlations of MMPI scales with a measure of desirability.…”

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Acquiescence and the Factorial Interpretation of the Mmpi1

Messick

Jackson

1960

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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The influence o~acquiescence and desirability as possible response determinants on the MMPI is annotated in a survey of recent experiments. The role of acquiescence is considered in detail by noting a high correlation between loadings on the largest MMPI factor and the proportion of items keyed "true" on each scale. All available factor analyses o~the~~PI were reviewed, and the finding of consistently high correlations,~our above .85, suggests that acquiescence is a major source of variance on the~~I.

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Acquiescence and the Factorial Interpretation of the Mmpi1

Messick

Jackson

1960

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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“…McClosky & Meehl, 1952); #280 Social Responsibility, Revised (Gough, McClosky & Meehl, 1957); #281 Suspicion (Tryon, Stein, & Chu, 1968); #319 Motivation to Change (Volsky, Magoon, Norman & Hoyt, 1965); #320 Neuropsychiatric Hospitalization Chronicity (Anker, 1961); #321 Prediction of Change (Schofield, 1950); #328 Headache Proneness (Archibald, 1955); #331 Suicide Key (Simon & Hales, 1949); #332 Threat Suicide (Farberow & Devries, 1967); #428 Test-taking Defensiveness (Hanley, 1957); #429 Social Desirabililty (Fordyce, 1956); #430 Social Desirability, Revised (Edwards, 1957); #431 Non-overlapping, Purified Social Desirability (Adams & Horn. 1965); #432 Social Desirability (Wiggins, 1959): #433 Social Desirability (A Scale) (Wiggins & Rumrill, 1959); #434 Social Desirability (R Scale Males) (Wiggins & Rumrill, 1959).…”

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Use Of The MMPI And Its Derived Scales With Sex Offenders: I. Reliability and Validity Studies

Langevin¹,

Wright²,

Handy³

1990

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment

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“…Items in between, for which approximately half the normative group responds "true" and half "false," are said to be high 'in Il cont r over si ali t y" (Fricke, 1956;Hanley, 1957), a ,condition more suitable for eliciting acquiescence. This conception of communality is very similar to the interpretation of factor II stressed in the present paper, in which the consistent endorsement of desirable vs.…”

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Response Styles on the Mmpi: Comparison of Clinical and Normal Samples1

Jackson

Messick

1961

ETS Research Bulletin Series

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In an effort to appraise the degree to which response consistencies on the MMPI are attributable in widely differing populations to the general s;tylistic dimensions of acquies.cence and des,irability on the one hand, and to particular content consistencies, on the other, two studies. on two diverse samples were performed. By applying factor analysis to correlations among MMPI clinical and validity scales scored separately for "true" and "false" items, along with five specially constructed reference scales. to measure tendencies to endorse items at varying levels of desirability, relatively precise estimates of the proportion of variance attributable to response style and to content were obtained. The two sampl §lS employed--hospitalized neuropsychiatric patients and college students--yielded results consistent with those obtained from a previous study of prison inmates, in that the dominant role of ac~uiescence and desirability response' styles was emphasized. In all three samples two very large factors appe~red, identifiable as acquiescence and desirability. On the average, approximately three-quarters of the common variance and over half of the total variance was attributable ,to the two sty::J,.istic' ddmen-.sions, invo+ving in the hospital sample a somewhat 'larger and in the college sample a somewhat smaller proportion of the variance, as com-'pared with the previous prison sample. All MMPI slilb-scales employed in these three analyses elicite,d subs~ntial response style effects.Furthermore, in each of the three analyses, the factor loadings of the scales on the acquiescence and desirability dimensions arrayed the scale vectors in a circular pattern, suggesting that acquiescence is differentially elicited by items at varying levels of desirability.In addition, several quite small factors were obtained in each of the analyses, some attributed 'to item overlap and some to consistent content responses. Four factors in the hospital sample and three in

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Deriving a measure of test-taking defensiveness.

Cited by 54 publications

References 9 publications

Acquiescence and the Factorial Interpretation of the Mmpi1

Acquiescence and the Factorial Interpretation of the Mmpi1

Use Of The MMPI And Its Derived Scales With Sex Offenders: I. Reliability and Validity Studies

Response Styles on the Mmpi: Comparison of Clinical and Normal Samples1

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