Abstract
The current study examined the effectiveness of the MMPI-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath and Tellegen, 2008) over-reporting indicators in civil forensic settings. The MMPI-2-RF includes three revised MMPI-2 over-reporting validity scales and a new scale to detect over-reported somatic complaints. Participants dissimulated medical and neuropsychological complaints in two simulation samples, and a known-groups sample used symptom validity tests as a response bias criterion. Results indicated large effect sizes for the MMPI-2-RF validity scales, including a Cohen's d of. 90 for Fs in a head injury simulation sample, 2.31 for FBS-r, 2.01 for F-r, and 1.97 for Fs in a medical simulation sample, and 1.45 for FBS-r and 1.30 for F-r in identifying poor effort on SVTs. Classification results indicated good sensitivity and specificity for the scales across the samples. This study indicates that the MMPI-2-RF over-reporting validity scales are effective at detecting symptom over-reporting in civil forensic settings.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 671-680 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This study was funded in part by a grant from the University of Minnesota Press, publisher of the MMPI-2-RF. Other partial funding was provided by the Graduate School of the University of Kentucky.
Keywords
- Forensic evaluation
- MMPI-2 Restructured Form
- MMPI-2-RF
- Malingering
- Medico-legal