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Boccaccini, Marcus T.; Murrie, Daniel C.; Duncan, Scott A. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
In this study, the authors examined how overreporting of psychopathology indices on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; L. C. Morey, 1991) performed as screening measures for malingering in a sample of 166 defendants undergoing pretrial court-ordered evaluations in the federal criminal justice system. Using results from the Structured…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Personality Assessment, Justice, Cutting Scores
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Pritchard, David A.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1980
Concludes that there is no evidence for differential validity in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) between racial subgroups and that black norms for the MMPI are premature. Criticism of these findings is also presented. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Blacks, Methods Research, Personality Measures, Predictive Validity
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Handel, Richard W.; Arnau, Randolph C.; Archer, Robert P.; Dandy, Kristina L. – Assessment, 2006
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--Adolescent (MMPI-A) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (MMPI-2) True Response Inconsistency (TRIN) scales are measures of acquiescence and nonacquiescence included among the standard validity scales on these instruments. The goals of this study were to evaluate the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Protocol Analysis, Effect Size, Personality Measures