Detection of Faking Good on the MMPI in a Psychiatric Inpatient Population

Kelly, David B.; Greene, Roger L.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1989.65.3.747

Psychol Rep

1989

DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1989.65.3.747

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Detection of Faking Good on the MMPI in a Psychiatric Inpatient Population

David B. Kelly

Roger L. Greene

Abstract: The efficacy of the Mp and X minus zero scales of the MMPI in identifying fake-good profiles was investigated. 30 volunteers from the admissions unit of a state mental hospital were administered the MMPI once under instructions to fake good and once under standard instructions. Under fake-good instructions, psychiatric inpatients were able to produce profiles similar to those of normal college students. Both the Mp and X minus zero scales discriminated significantly between the standard and fake-good profiles.… Show more

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“…In the original study, Cofer et al (1949) found that a cutting score of 20 or more correctly classified 96% of the honest records and 86% of positively malingered (instructions to make the best possible impression) records. Subsequent research has also found the Mp scale to be effective in identifying "faking good" on the MMPI (Grow, McVaugh, & Eno, 1980;Kelly & Greene, 1989;Wales & Seeman, 1968).…”

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Detection of deception in law enforcement applicants: A preliminary investigation.

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Stock²

1993

Law and Human Behavior

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Detection of deception in law enforcement applicants: A preliminary investigation.

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1993

Law and Human Behavior

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Detection of underreporting of psychopathology on the MMPI: A meta-analysis

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1992

Clinical Psychology Review

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Meta-Analyses of Fakability Estimates: Implications for Personality Measurement

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1999

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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The authors examined whether individuals can fake their responses to a personality inventory if instructed to do so. Between-subjects and within-subject designs were metaanalyzed separately. Across 51 studies, fakability did not vary by personality dimension; all the Big Five factors were equally fakable. Faking produced the largest distortions in social desirability scales. Instructions to fake good produced lower effect sizes compared with instructions to fake bad. Comparing meta-analytic results from within-subjects and between-subjects designs, we conclude, based on statistical and methodological considerations, that within-subjects designs produce more accurate estimates. Betweensubjects designs may distort estimates due to Subject × Treatment interactions and low statistical power.Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in personality variables in industrial-organizational psychology (cf. Barrick & Mount, 1991). This resurgence is partly fueled by the cumulation of meta-analytic evidence suggesting that validities substantially generalize across situations (Barrick &

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Detection of Faking Good on the MMPI in a Psychiatric Inpatient Population

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Detection of deception in law enforcement applicants: A preliminary investigation.

Detection of deception in law enforcement applicants: A preliminary investigation.

Detection of underreporting of psychopathology on the MMPI: A meta-analysis

Meta-Analyses of Fakability Estimates: Implications for Personality Measurement

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