Research on feigned mental disorders indicates that severe psychopathology coupled with significant trauma histories often complicate feigning determinations, resulting in inaccuracies on otherwise effective measures. As part of malingering assessments, the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is often used because of its excellent validation…

Mental health professionals conducting screenings in jail settings face formidable challenges in identifying inmates at risk for major depression and suicide. Psychologists often rely on correctional staff to provide initial appraisals of those inmates requiring further evaluation. In a sample of 100 jail detainees, the effectiveness of two…

To explore possible misconstruing of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) profiles, MMPI-2 protocols from 196 clinical outpatients were compared to 196 randomly generated protocols in a 3-stage scale development procedure designed to detect inconsistent responses. Results support the new scale as a screening measure. (SLD)

The convergent validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) (Morey, 1991) was examined with 80 referrals in a correctional facility. Comparison of PAI results with those from four other measures reveals moderate to good convergent validity for screening for feigned profiles, clinical correlates of common disorders, and evaluating…

The concurrent validity of Spanish versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 and the Personality Assessment Inventory (L. Morey, 1991) was studied with 105 Hispanic patients using a revised Spanish version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (L. Robins and others, 1981) as the criterion measure. Results suggest that both…

Ten Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) fake-bad scales/indexes are reviewed with respect to their potential usefulness in evaluation of feigning mental illness, and a meta analysis of the MMPI is performed. One scale and two indexes were superior when effect sizes were calculated. (SLD)