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The F ( p ) infrequency‐psychopathology scale with chemically dependent inpatients
Author(s) -
Ladd Jon S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199808)54:5<665::aid-jclp12>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - psychopathology , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , construct validity , clinical psychology , psychiatry , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , personality , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
This study examines characteristics of Arbisi and Ben‐Porath's (1995) MMPI‐2 Infrequency‐Psychopathology scale, F ( p ), in a sample of individuals admitted for inpatient treatment of chemical dependency. The F ( p ) scale, designed to detect deviant response biases in settings characterized by high base rates of psychopathology, was found by Arbisi and Ben‐Porath (1995) to have good construct and incremental validity with psychiatric inpatients. Comparisons of the F ( p ), Infrequency ( F ), and Infrequency‐Back ( Fb ) scales' means and relationships to indices of psychopathology in the current study provide evidence supporting the F ( p ) scale's validity in populations of chemically dependent inpatients with and without concurrent psychiatric diagnoses. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 54: 665–671, 1998.