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

Baer, Ruth A.; Wetter, Martha W.; Berry, David T. R.

doi:10.1016/0272-7358(92)90069-k

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“…Participants with higher needs for positive selfpresentation gave themselves lower ratings on these nine personality disorder scales than participants with lower needs for positive self presentation similar to findings from meta-analyses (Baer, Wetter, & Berry, 1992). These results indicate that the need for positive self presentation has a significant impact and may bias self-ratings.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

Self and informant ratings of SCID-II personality disorder items for nonreferred college women: Effects of item and participant characteristics

McKeeman

Erickson

1997

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Examined the relationship between self- and informant-ratings on Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Personality Disorders (SCID-II) items. Seventy-five female undergraduate student volunteers and their roommates also completed the Brief Symptom Inventory, Rubin's Liking Scale, and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Self-rating scores on personality disorder items were significantly higher than informant-ratings on five personality disorder scales. Participants and informants endorsed more personality disorder items rated higher on social desirability. No relationship was found between subjectivity of personality disorder scales and differences between self- and informant-ratings. Participants with higher needs for positive self-presentation rated themselves lower on nine personality disorder scales. A higher level of liking for roommates was associated with lower informant ratings for six personality disorder scales.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

Self and informant ratings of SCID-II personality disorder items for nonreferred college women: Effects of item and participant characteristics

McKeeman

Erickson

1997

J. Clin. Psychol.

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“…Thus, the problems of deliberate bias and careless responding were addressed in the MMPI with scales that could quantify the overall validity of the test for any one respondent. The literature is replete with findings that support the usefulness of the validity scales, demonstrating their ability to pinpoint faking good (Baer, Wetter, & Berry, 1992) and bad (Berry, Baer, & Harris, 1991) and inconsistent responding (Gallen & Berry, 1996).…”

Section: Self-report Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 92%

Explicit Rejection of an Implicit Dichotomy: Integrating Two Approaches to Assessing Dependency

Cogswell

2008

Journal of Personality Assessment

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The field of personality theory and assessment is characterized by a long-standing divide between proponents of self-report and indirect approaches to assessment. This article reviews the increasing convergence between the two sides, using recent writings on interpersonal dependency as an example domain. The assumptions of the self-report approach to personality assessment are contrasted with those of the indirect, and research using both types of assessments is reviewed. Also considered is the importance of recognizing dissociations between a particular individual's scores on self-report and indirect measures of a given component of self-concept, and the possible implications of such dissociations. It is argued that the convergence between two traditionally disparate approaches is likely to develop, in light of hypotheses, data and conclusions that bear notable similarity.

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“…Research with these populations have found L and K to relate to denial (Lanyon & Lutz, 1984;Lanyon, Dannenbaum, & Brown, 1991), "faking-good" (Gendreau, Irvine, & Knight, 1973;Hunt, 1948;Rice, Arnold, & Tate, 1983), defensiveness (Audubon & Kirwin, 1982;Lawrence, 1996), paranoid psychopathology (Fjordbak, 1985), severity of pathology (Roman et al, 1990), forensic status (Bagby et al, 1994), and underreporting of psychopathology (Baer, Wetter, & Berry, 1992). Despite clinically useful findings, the results of these studies were confounded by their failing to account for diagnostic specificity; they used heterogeneous groups.…”

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confidence: 96%

Differential patterns of responding among three groups of chronic, psychotic, forensic outpatients

Bannatyne¹,

Gacono

Greene³

1999

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Elements of response style were examined among three groups of chronic, psychotic, forensic patients: paranoid schizophrenics (N ϭ 89); undifferentiated-disorganized schizophrenics (N ϭ 38); and schizoaffective patients (N ϭ 53). Forensic patients with elevated MMPI-2 L Scales produced increased percentages of Pure Form (F %) on the Rorschach. A similar relationship occurred when the Rorschach was used as the independent measure. Schizoaffective patients reported more psychotic symptoms on the MMPI-2 and lower F % (Rorschach) than both schizophrenic groups. Although undifferentiated schizophrenics evidenced the most psychopathology on the Rorschach (impaired reality testing and perceptual accuracy disturbance), all three groups produced lower than expected frequencies for Rorschach variables commonly associated with thought disorder and poor reality testing (Exner, 1995b). The clinical importance of using the MMPI-2 and Rorschach in tandem with forensic psychiatric patients is discussed. Our empirical findings suggest the need for forensic evaluators to consider the important relationship between psychiatric diagnosis and response style (defensiveness, denial, illness chronicity, medications, and concurrent Axis II psychopathology) when interpreting oftenconstricted psychological testing protocols in chronic forensic patient populations.

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

Cited by 93 publications

References 31 publications

Self and informant ratings of SCID-II personality disorder items for nonreferred college women: Effects of item and participant characteristics

Self and informant ratings of SCID-II personality disorder items for nonreferred college women: Effects of item and participant characteristics

Explicit Rejection of an Implicit Dichotomy: Integrating Two Approaches to Assessing Dependency

Differential patterns of responding among three groups of chronic, psychotic, forensic outpatients

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