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The Utility of the MMPI-2 Malingering Discriminant Function Index in the Detection of Malingering: A Study of Criminal Defendants
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Toomey, Joseph A.; Kucharski, L. Thomas; Duncan, Scott – Assessment, 2009
This study examined the utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2's (MMPI-2) malingering discriminant function index (M-DFI), recently developed by Bacchiochi and Bagby, in the detection of malingering in a forensic sample. Criminal defendants were divided into "malingering" and "not malingering" groups using…
Descriptors: Criminals, Discriminant Analysis, Court Litigation, Regression (Statistics)
Understanding Psychopathy through an Evaluation of Interpersonal Behavior: Testing the Factor Structure of the Interpersonal Measure of Psychopathy in a Large Sample of Jail Detainees
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Vitacco, Michael J.; Kosson, David S. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
Interpersonal characteristics are core features of the psychopathy construct which have a unique pattern of correlations with a variety of external correlates. To improve the assessment of interpersonal traits, the current study evaluated the internal structure of the Interpersonal Measure of Psychopathy (IM-P) through exploratory and confirmatory…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Personality Problems, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
The Use of the MMPI-2 for the Assessment of Depressive and Psychotic Disorders.
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Wetzler, Scott; Khadivi, Ali; Moser, R. Kevin – Assessment, 1998
The usefulness of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) (J. Butcher and others, 1989) for diagnosis and assessment of depression and psychoses was studied with 264 psychiatric inpatients. MMPI-2 profiles were sensitive to group differences, and the derived regression equations were stable and fairly good at classification.…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Depression (Psychology), Diagnostic Tests