The Development of a Reduced-Item Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS)

Malcore, Sylvia A.; Schutte, Christian; Dyke, Sarah A. Van; Axelrod, Bradley N.

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“…We included the 37 items from the short form of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS; Smith & Burger, 1997 ; Malcore, Schutte, Van Dyke, & Axelrod, 2015 2 ), 8 items from the taxon subscale of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES; Bernstein & Putnam, 1986 ; Waller, Putnam, & Carlson, 1996 ), and 18 items from the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18; Derogatis, 2001 ) . The SIMS items allude to psychological and neuropsychiatric symptoms that are, at least in a Western context, uncommon (Merckelbach & Smith, 2003 ).…”

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Plausibility Judgments of Atypical Symptoms Across Cultures: an Explorative Study Among Western and Non-Western Experts

Bošković

Heide

Hope

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Psychol. Inj. and Law

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Symptom validity tests (SVTs) are predicated on the assumption that overendorsement of atypical symptoms flags symptom exaggeration (i.e., questionable symptom validity). However, few studies have explored how practitioners from different cultural backgrounds evaluate such symptoms. We asked professionals working in Western (n = 56) and nonWestern countries (n = 37) to rate the plausibility of uncommon symptoms taken from the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS), dissociative symptoms from the Dissociative Experience Scale (DES-T), and standard symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression) from the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18). Western and non-Western experts gave similar plausibility ratings to atypical, dissociative, and standard symptoms: both groups judged BSI-18 symptoms as significantly more plausible than either dissociative or atypical symptoms, while the latter two categories did not differ. Our results suggest that the strategy to detect symptom exaggeration by exploring overendorsement of atypical items might work in a non-western context as well.

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“… 2 Following the appendix in the manuscript by Malcore et al ( 2015 ), 38 items were excluded from the original SIMS version. This resulted in the final version of 37 items, which is not in accordance with authors’ claim that the final version includes 36 items.…”

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Plausibility Judgments of Atypical Symptoms Across Cultures: an Explorative Study Among Western and Non-Western Experts

Bošković

Heide

Hope

et al. 2017

Psychol. Inj. and Law

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“…22 Huntington proposed a differentiation between Western and non-Western civilizations primarily based on religion and economic and social development. 23 Following the appendix in the manuscript by Malcore et al (2015), 38 items were excluded from the original SIMS version. This resulted in the final version of 37 items, which is not in accordance with authors' claim that the final version includes 36 items.…”

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A multi-method approach to the detection of fabricated symptoms

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“…Next, participants were told the following tasks to be particularly challenging for individuals with symptoms of a learning disability or ADHD, and that if they showed low performance or endorsed symptoms on these tasks, this would make them eligible for an extra compensation of € 2.50 (i.e., money-voucher as described in cover story; see also Appendix C). In reality, these tests were two SVTs: the b Test and the brief Dutch version of the SIMS (Cronbach's alpha = .85) as described by Malcore, Schutte, Van Dyke, and Axelrod (2015).…”

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“…For the SIMS (Malcore et al, 2015), we calculated the total endorsement rate. The abbreviated (i.e., 35 items) SIMS has only four subscales: neurological impairment (NI), affective disorder (AF), psychosis (P) and amnestic disorder (AM).…”

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Symptom over-reporting ≠ malingering

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The Development of a Reduced-Item Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS)

Cited by 18 publications

References 21 publications

Plausibility Judgments of Atypical Symptoms Across Cultures: an Explorative Study Among Western and Non-Western Experts

Plausibility Judgments of Atypical Symptoms Across Cultures: an Explorative Study Among Western and Non-Western Experts

A multi-method approach to the detection of fabricated symptoms

Symptom over-reporting ≠ malingering

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