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The Impact of Overreporting on MMPI-2-RF Substantive Scale Score Validity
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Burchett, Danielle L.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S. – Assessment, 2010
This study examined the impact of overreporting on the validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) substantive scale scores by comparing correlations with relevant external criteria (i.e., validity coefficients) of individuals who completed the instrument under instructions to (a) feign psychopathology…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Validity, Psychopathology, Personality Traits
A Comparison of MMPI--2 measures of Psychopathic Deviance in a Forensic Setting
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Sellbom, Martin; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Stafford, Kathleen P. – Psychological Assessment, 2007
We examined the convergent and discriminant validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (MMPI--2) measures of psychopathy, including the Clinical Scale 4, Restructured Clinical Scale 4 (RC4), Content Scale Antisocial Practices (ASP), and Personality Psychopathology Five Scale Disconstraint (DISC). Comparisons of the empirical…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Validity, Psychopathology, Personality Measures
Interpreting Low Personality Psychopathology--Five Aggressiveness Scores on the MMPI-2: Graphical, Robust, and Resistant Data Analysis
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Weisenburger, Susan M.; Harkness, Allan R.; McNulty, John L.; Graham, John R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S. – Psychological Assessment, 2008
The Minnesota Mutiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)-based Personality Psychopathology-Five (PSY-5) scales provide an overview of personality individual differences. Several textbooks and a test report offer instruction on interpreting MMPI-2 PSY-5 scores. On the basis of an earlier item response theory article (S. V. Rouse, M. S. Finger,…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Personality Measures, Measures (Individuals), Data Analysis
The Ability of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 Validity Scales To Detect Fake-Bad Responses in Psychiatric Inpatients.
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Arbisi, Paul A.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S. – Psychological Assessment, 1998
The effectiveness of the Infrequency-Psychopathology Scale (P. Arbisi and Y. Ben-Porath, 1995) in discriminating between groups of patients administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 under honest and fake-bad conditions was studied with 74 patients. Results support use of the scale in detecting malingering in psychiatric…
Descriptors: Identification, Patients, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures
"Normal" Personality Inventories in Clinical Assessment: General Requirements and the Potential for Using the NEO Personality Inventory.
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Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Waller, Niels G. – Psychological Assessment, 1992
Issues related to use of "normal" personality inventories in clinical assessment are discussed, including use of the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI) in clinical assessment. It is concluded that there is insufficient evidence to support the use of the NEO-PI for differential diagnoses of psychopathology. (SLD)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures
An MMPI-2 Infrequent Response Scale for Use with Psychopathological Populations: The Infrequency-Psychopathology Scale, "F(p)."
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Arbisi, Paul A.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S. – Psychological Assessment, 1995
The development and initial validation of a new Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (MMPI-2) scale designed to determine infrequent responding with psychopathological populations are described. Results with 1,179 subjects show that the Infrequency-Psychopathology Scale (F p ) may be useful in settings with high base rates of…
Descriptors: Patients, Psychological Patterns, Psychopathology, Responses
Assessing the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) in Adolescents: New MMPI-A Scales.
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McNulty, John L.; Harkness, Allan R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Williams, Carolyn L. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
The development of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) scales to measure the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), a model of personality, is reported. Preliminary scales were refined with the MMPI-A normative sample of 1,620 and a clinical sample of 713 adolescents, and their construct validity was supported. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Construct Validity, Models
Characteristics of the MMPI-2 F(p) Scale as a Function of Diagnosis in an Inpatient Sample of Veterans.
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Arbisi, Paul A.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S. – Psychological Assessment, 1997
A new infrequent response indicator, frequency psychopathology [F(p)] was developed for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and tested with 308 male psychiatric inpatients (veterans). Findings support the F(p) as a sensitive index of profile invalidity in psychiatric populations. (SLD)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Males, Mental Disorders, Patients
Construct Validity of the MMPI-2 College Maladjustment (Mt) Scale
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Barthlow, Deanna L.; Graham, John R.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; McNulty, John L – Assessment, 2004
The construct validity of the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2) College Maladjustment (Mt) Scale was examined using 376 student clients at a university psychological clinic. A principal components analysis and correlations of Mt scale scores with clients' and therapists' ratings of symptoms and functioning showed that the Mt…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Measures (Individuals), Personality Measures, Test Validity