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Psychological mindedness, intelligence, and item subtlety endorsement patterns on the MMPI
Author(s) -
Burkhart Barry R.,
Gynther Malcolm D.,
Christian William L.
Publication year - 1978
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 - 10.1002/1097-4679(197801)34:1<76::aid-jclp2270340116>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , psychological testing , clinical psychology , personality , social psychology
Abstract Investigated the relationship between psychological mindedness (measured by the Psychological Mindedness [Py] scale of the California Psychological Inventory [CPI]), intelligence (estimated by American College Test [ACT] scores), and item subtlety endorsement patterns of S s asked to answer the MMPI under standard, fake‐good, and fake‐bad response sets. Male ( N = 30) and female ( N = 30) undergraduate students completed the Py scale and two MMPI protocols–one under standard test‐taking instructions and the other under either a fake‐good or a fake‐bad set with order of administration and sex counterbalanced. Under the standard response set, S s who scored high on the CPI‐Py endorsed more very subtle and somewhat subtle items and fewer neutral, somewhat obvious, and very obvious items than S s who scored low on this scale. Intellectual ability was not related to the endorsement of subtle or obvious items under standard or fake‐good response sets. Under instructions to fake‐bad, more intelligent individulals endorsed fewer somewhat subtle items and more very obvious items than less intelligent individuals. These results were discussed in reference to the utility of subtle items as unobtrusive measures of personality or as indicators of certain response sets.