scholarly journals Patterns of MMPI-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) validity scale scores observed across Veteran Affairs settings.

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul B. Ingram ◽  
Anthony M. Tarescavage ◽  
Yossef S. Ben-Porath ◽  
Mary E. Oehlert
Keyword(s):  
Veteran Affairs ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Scale Scores

The Conscientious Responders Scale Helps Researchers Verify the Integrity of Personality Questionnaire Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 1529-1549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdravko Marjanovic ◽  
Lisa Bajkov ◽  
Jennifer MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Reactance ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Item Content

The Conscientious Responders Scale is a five-item embeddable validity scale that differentiates between conscientious and indiscriminate responding in personality-questionnaire data (CR & IR). This investigation presents further evidence of its validity and generalizability across two experiments. Study 1 tests its sensitivity to questionnaire length, a known cause of IR, and tries to provoke IR by manipulating psychological reactance. As expected, short questionnaires produced higher Conscientious Responders Scale scores than long questionnaires, and Conscientious Responders Scale scores were unaffected by reactance manipulations. Study 2 tests concerns that the Conscientious Responders Scale’s unusual item content could potentially irritate and baffle responders, ironically increasing rates of IR. We administered two nearly identical questionnaires: one with an embedded Conscientious Responders Scale and one without the Conscientious Responders Scale. Psychometric comparisons revealed no differences across questionnaires’ means, variances, interitem response consistencies, and Cronbach’s alphas. In sum, the Conscientious Responders Scale is highly sensitive to questionnaire length—a known correlate of IR—and can be embedded harmlessly in questionnaires without provoking IR or changing the psychometrics of other measures.

scholarly journals Visual memory function in relation to MMPI-2 validity scale scores following chemical exposure

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-291
Author(s):  
R. Bowler ◽  
C. Hartney ◽  
D. Strongin ◽  
S. Muzio ◽  
S. Tarango
Keyword(s):  
Visual Memory ◽  
Memory Function ◽  
Chemical Exposure ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Scale Scores

Toward Normative MMPI-2 Profiles for Evangelical Missionaries in Candidate and Clinical Settings: Examining Differences by Setting, Generation, and Marital Status

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher H. Rosik ◽  
Meg M. Slivoskey ◽  
Katie M. Ogdon ◽  
Tiffany M. Kincaid ◽  
Ian K. Roos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Normative Sample ◽  
Clinical Scales ◽  
Standard Scale ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Christian Missionary ◽  
Successive Generations

In order to replicate and expand the work of Dimos (2013), we compiled the largest samples to date of MMPI-2 standard scale profiles among evangelical Christian missionary candidates (n =1227; 530 men and 696 women) and outpatients (n = 1431; 643 men and 788 women). Results indicated our candidate scale scores were remarkably similar to those reported by Dimos and together these datasets appear to converge on a reliable normative profile for this population. We also present a potential outpatient normative profile for our clinical sample. In distinguishing our samples from the MMPI-2 normative sample, we found that validity scale differences were most salient for the missionary candidates and several clinical scales provided the clearest contrasts for missionary outpatients. Potential profile shifts among successive generations were evident in the form of somewhat less defensiveness and, specific to outpatients, slightly more sensitivity and feelings of grievance. Finally, while the profiles of married and single candidates were essentially similar, among the clinical sample married missionaries appeared slightly more guarded and less distressed than their single counterparts.

The Generalizability of Overreporting Across Self-Report Measures: An Investigation With the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2–Restructured Form and the Personality Assessment Inventory in a Civil Disability Sample

Assessment ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 555-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam H. Crighton ◽  
Anthony M. Tarescavage ◽  
Roger O. Gervais ◽  
Yossef S. Ben-Porath
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Validity Scales ◽  
Cognitive Complaints ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Scale Scores

Elevated overreporting Validity Scale scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2–Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) are associated with higher scores on collateral measures; however, measures used in prior research lacked validity scales. We sought to extend these findings by examining associations between elevated MMPI-2-RF overreporting scale scores and Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) scale scores among 654 non–head injury civil disability claimants. Individuals were classified as overreporting psychopathology (OR-P), overreporting somatic/cognitive complaints (OR-SC), inconclusive reporting psychopathology (IR-P), inconclusive reporting somatic/cognitive complaints (IR-SC), or valid reporting (VR). Both overreporting groups had significantly and meaningfully higher scores than the VR group on the MMPI-2-RF and PAI scales. Both IR groups had significantly and meaningfully higher scores than the VR group, as well as lower scores than their overreporting counterparts. Our findings demonstrate the utility of inventories with validity scales in assessment batteries that include instruments without measures of protocol validity.

The Susceptibility of Overt and Covert Integrity Tests to Coaching and Faking

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
George M. Alliger ◽  
Scott O. Lilienfeld ◽  
Krystin E. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Integrity Test ◽  
Test Coaching ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Counterproductive Behavior ◽  
Simple Rules ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Integrity Tests ◽  
Fake Good

Although previous research has indicated that faking can affect integrity test scores, the effects of coaching on integrity test scores have never been examined We conducted a between-subjects experiment to assess the effects of coaching and faking instructions on an overt and a covert integrity test Coaching provided simple rules to follow when answering test items and instructions on how to avoid elevated validity scale scores There were five instruction conditions “just take,” “fake good,” “coach overt,” “coach covert,” and coach both All subjects completed both overt and covert tests and a measure of intelligence Results provided strong evidence for the coachability of the overt integrity test, over and above the much smaller elevation in the faking condition The covert test apparently could be neither coached nor faked successfully Scores on both integrity tests tended to be positively correlated with intelligence in the coaching and faking conditions We discuss the generalizability of these results to other samples and other integrity tests, and the relevance of the coachability of integrity tests to the ongoing debate concerning the prediction of counterproductive behavior

Reliability Generalization: Exploring Reliability Variations on MMPI/MMPI-2 Validity Scale Scores

Assessment ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tammi Vacha-Haase ◽  
Crystal R. Tani ◽  
Lori R. Kogan ◽  
Renee A. Woodall ◽  
Bruce Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Reliability Generalization ◽  
Validity Scale ◽  
Scale Scores
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