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An MMPI‐based empirical model of malingering and deception
Author(s) -
Heilbrun Kirk,
Bennett William S.,
White Adam J.,
Kelly Jennifer
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/bsl.2370080106
Subject(s) - malingering , deception , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , psychology , clinical psychology , operationalization , psychiatry , social psychology , personality , philosophy , epistemology
The empirically‐based model of malingering and deception described by Rogers (1984b) was operationalized using MMPI and clinical interview data. Subjects ( N = 159) were patients committed to an inpatient forensic hospital as ‘Incompetent to Stand Trial’ or ‘Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity’. Inter‐rater reliability was acceptable for the 11 criteria used to define response styles. Each subject was categorized into one of five response style groups: ‘Reliable’, ‘Malingering’, ‘Defensive’, ‘Irrelevant’, or ‘Unclassifiable’. Factor analysis of the rating criteria yielded four factors, three of which are comparable to the assigned groups, providing some validation for the constructs underlying these groups.