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Arbisi, Paul A.; Polusny, Melissa A.; Erbes, Christopher R.; Thuras, Paul; Reddy, Madhavi K. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2 RF) was administered to 251 National Guard soldiers who had recently returned from deployment to Iraq. Soldiers were also administered questionnaires to identify posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). On the basis of responses to the…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Emotional Disturbances, Injuries, Validity
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Wygant, Dustin B.; Sellbom, Martin; Gervais, Roger O.; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Stafford, Kathleen P.; Freeman, David B.; Heilbronner, Robert L. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
The present study extends the validation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Response Bias Scale (RBS; R. O. Gervais, Y. S. Ben-Porath, D. B. Wygant, & P. Green, 2007) in separate forensic samples composed of disability claimants and…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Criminals, Validity, Personality Measures
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Greiffenstein, Manfred F. – Assessment, 2010
The Symptom Validity Scale (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-FBS [MMPI-2-FBS]) is a standard MMPI-2 validity scale measuring overstatement of somatic distress and subjective disability. Some critics assert the MMPI-2-FBS misclassifies too many medically impaired persons as malingering symptoms. This study tests the assertion of…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Validity, Sleep, Personality
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Livingston, Ronald B.; Jennings, Earl; Colotla, Victor A.; Reynolds, Cecil R.; Shercliffe, Regan J. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
In this study, the authors examined the stability of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (J. N. Butcher, W. G. Dahlstrom, J. R. Graham, A. Tellegen, & B. Kaemmer, 1989) code types in a sample of 94 injured workers with a mean test-retest interval of 21.3 months (SD = 14.1). Congruence rates for undefined code types were 34% for…
Descriptors: Congruence (Psychology), Injuries, Personality Measures, Test Reliability
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Wetter, Martha W.; Deitsch, Sarah E. – Psychological Assessment, 1996
The ability of persons faking posttraumatic stress disorder or head injury to respond consistently across serial testings on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 was studied with 118 undergraduates. Results suggest that test takers can fake and describe symptoms consistently, and that type of disorder may affect temporal response…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Higher Education, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Reliability
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Lamb, David G.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1994
The impact of detailed information on closed head injury (CHI) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) validity scales on malingering psychological symptoms of CHI on the MMPI-2 was studied in an analog experiment with 270 undergraduates. Results suggest the impact of such coaching on simulation of CHI. (SLD)
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Psychological Patterns
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Repko, Glenn R.; Cooper, Robert – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Outlines a group profile of patients (N=200) seen for psychiatric evaluation involving workers' compensation. Results showed 73 percent of the cases could be classified by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. A third of the sample reported back injury with 15 percent purely emotional complaints. There were few exaggerated MMPI profile…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Injuries, Participant Characteristics, Patients
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Berry, David T. R.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1995
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) validity scales were compared for 20 nonclinical participants, 18 subjects asked to fake injury, 18 head injury patients not seeking compensation, and 30 compensation-seeking head injury patients. Results suggest that MMPI-2 overreporting scales are sensitive to complaint fabrication and…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Head Injuries, Neuropsychology, Patients
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Van Balen, H. G. G.; Van Limbeek, J.; De Mey, H. R. A. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1997
Forty neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, and physiatrists identified neurologically relevant items (NRIs) in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2). Raters identified four sets of NRIs: one for brain damage in general and three partially overlapping sets for stroke, traumatic brain damage, and whiplash.…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Head Injuries, Interrater Reliability, Neurological Impairments
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Gass, Carlton S. – Psychological Assessment, 1996
Attention span, verbal list learning, and memory test performance were examined in relation to Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) measures of depression, anxiety, and psychotic thinking in 128 male head-injury and psychiatric patients. Results support the view that MMPI-2 scores are relevant to neuropsychological test…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attention, Depression (Psychology), Head Injuries