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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI‐III): The inability of the validity conditions to detect random responders
Author(s) -
Charter Richard A.,
Lopez Michael N.
Publication year - 2002
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/jclp.10073
Subject(s) - millon clinical multiaxial inventory , psychology , scale (ratio) , personality , clinical psychology , personality assessment inventory , test validity , psychometrics , personality disorders , social psychology , cartography , geography
The effectiveness of the MCMI‐III Validity scale, Scale X, and the Clinical Personality Pattern scales to detect random responding is put to the test. The binomial expansion and Monte Carlo techniques were used. If the examiner is willing to interpret tests of questionable validity, then 50% of the random responders will not be detected. Scale X and the Clinical Personality Pattern scales were useless in detecting random responders. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 1615–1617, 2002.