The Detection of Malingered Psychopathology and Cognitive Deficits: Employing the Fake Bad Scale and the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Assessing Response Style and Malingering

“…While performance on cognitive and psychopathology validity tests may constitute separate factors in disability contexts, the factors may show substantial correlations (Nelson et al 2007b). Further, many researchers have found substantial correlations between self-report scales and SVT performance, including FBS (Larrabee 2003;Nelson et al 2007a, b;Sellers et al, 2006;Vagnini 2003;Wygant et al 2007), RBS Nelson et al 2007a, b;Whitney et al 2008), F and F(p) (Dearth et al 2005;Whitney et al 2008), Ds2 (Dearth et al), and SIRS scales (Rogers et al 2008).…”

“…Although there has been controversy surrounding the FBS and its value (Arbisi and Butcher 2004;Ben-Porath et al 2009;Butcher et al 2003Butcher et al , 2008Greve and Bianchini 2004b;Lees-Haley and Fox 2004;Williams et al 2009), recent studies (Ardolf et al 2007;Bianchini et al 2008;Demakis et al 2008;Sellers et al 2006;Wygant et al 2007) provide evidence of FBS's validity. Unlike the F family and other traditional response-style scales, FBS typically shows a substantial relationship to performance on cognitive SVTs (Larrabee 2003;Sellers et al 2006;Wygant et al 2007; but see Whitney et al 2008).…”

“…Unlike the F family and other traditional response-style scales, FBS typically shows a substantial relationship to performance on cognitive SVTs (Larrabee 2003;Sellers et al 2006;Wygant et al 2007; but see Whitney et al 2008). A strongly supportive study (Crawford et al 2006) was published after the Nelson et al analysis, although Rogers (2008a) was harshly critical of its methodology.…”