The Evaluation of Truthfulness in Alleged Sex Offenders' Self-Reports: 16PF and MMPI Validity Scales

Grossman, Linda S.; Haywood, Thomas W.; Wasyliw, Orest E.

doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa5902_4

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“…An important line of research in personality assessment has focused on identifying test takers who respond to personality inventories in a random, dishonest, or otherwise deviant fashion. These response sets are threats to the validity of the interpretations made from the resulting profiles (e.g., Grossman, Haywood, & Wasyliw, 1988; Pinsoneault, 2002). One response set that has received considerable attention is that of random response.…”

Section: Methodology For Comprehensive Person-fit Analysismentioning

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Global, Local, and Graphical Person-Fit Analysis Using Person-Response Functions.

Emons

Sijtsma²,

Meijer³

2005

Psychological Methods

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Person-fit statistics test whether the likelihood of a respondent's complete vector of item scores on a test is low given the hypothesized item response theory model. This binary information may be insufficient for diagnosing the cause of a misfitting item-score vector. The authors propose a comprehensive methodology for person-fit analysis in the context of nonparametric item response theory. The methodology (a) includes H. Van der Flier's (1982) global person-fit statistic U3 to make the binary decision about fit or misfit of a person's item-score vector, (b) uses kernel smoothing (J. O. Ramsay, 1991) to estimate the person-response function for the misfitting item-score vectors, and (c) evaluates unexpected trends in the person-response function using a new local person-fit statistic (W. H. M. Emons, 2003). An empirical data example shows how to use the methodology for practical person-fit analysis.

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Section: Methodology For Comprehensive Person-fit Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Global, Local, and Graphical Person-Fit Analysis Using Person-Response Functions.

Emons

Sijtsma²,

Meijer³

2005

Psychological Methods

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“…Several studies have addressed the critical issue of the tendency of accused child molesters who deny the charges to present themselves in an overly positive light (Grossman, Haywood, & Wasyliw, 1992;Hall, 1989; Haywood Langevin, 1988;Lanyon, Dannebaum, Woolf, & Brown, 1989;Lanyon & Lutz, 1984). This seems to be characteristic of men who deny charges of sexual offending, and although there have been no reports on these tendencies for rapists alone, several studies have examined child molesters.…”

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The Value of the MMPI in Deciding Forensic Issues in Accused Sexual Offenders

Marshall

Hall

1995

Sex Abuse

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Research attempting to distinguish various types of sexual offenders in terms of their responses on the MMPI are reviewed. The results generally display inconsistency across studies, but two common features that emerge are heterogeneity of responses among each type of sexual offender and considerable overlap in response profiles between sexual offenders and other subjects. It is concluded that these results deny the value of using the MMPI to assist courts in the determination of the guilt or innocence of a person accused of committing a sexual offense.KEY WORDS: sexual offender assessment; MMPI; forensic psychology; sexual offender denial.

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“…As a performance-based measure, the MSCEIT avoids problems such as impression management and distorted self-concept, inherent in self-report assessments, particularly self-report assessments of offender populations (Grossman, Haywood & Wasyliw, 1992;Haywood, Grossman & Hardy, 1993;Kalichman, 1990;Mayer, Caruso & Salovey, 2000).…”

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The emotional intelligence of adult sex offenders: ability based EI assessment

Puglia

Stough

Carter

et al. 2005

Journal of Sexual Aggression

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Previous research has suggested that sex offenders are deficient in several areas of emotional functioning such as empathy, emotional perception, emotional management and interpersonal functioning. It is unclear, however, whether sex offenders display a general deficit in emotional functioning or whether their emotional deficits are specific to the circumstances in which offences occur. The present study aimed to provide a broad assessment of the emotional functioning of sex offenders by assessing their emotional intelligence (EI) using an abilities-based emotional intelligence test. Nineteen sex offenders, 18 non-sex offending prisoners and 19 controls were administered the Perception, Assimilation and Management branch subtests from the Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). The results indicated that the sex offenders were not significantly different than the control group, as assessed by these three branches of the MSCEIT. The results lend support to the suggestion that the emotional deficits displayed by sex offenders may be offence-specific. Implications for the use of the MSCEIT in sex offending populations and the role of EI in relapse prevention programmes are discussed.

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The Evaluation of Truthfulness in Alleged Sex Offenders' Self-Reports: 16PF and MMPI Validity Scales

Cited by 20 publications

References 43 publications

Global, Local, and Graphical Person-Fit Analysis Using Person-Response Functions.

Global, Local, and Graphical Person-Fit Analysis Using Person-Response Functions.

The Value of the MMPI in Deciding Forensic Issues in Accused Sexual Offenders

The emotional intelligence of adult sex offenders: ability based EI assessment

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