Dimensions of deception in personality assessment: The example of the MMPI-2

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 251-266

  Nichols, David S ^a   Greene, Roger L ^b  

^a Oregon State Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY TEST; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0030910622     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa6802_3     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Arbisi, P. A., & Ben-Porath, Y. S. (1995). An MMPI-2 infrequent response scale for use with psychopathological populations: The Infrequency-Psychopathology scale F(p). Psychological Assessment, 7, 424-431.
2. Baer, R. A., Wetter, M. W., & Berry, D. T. R. (1992). Detection of underreporting of psychopathology on the MMPI: A meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 12, 509-525.
3. Baer, R. A., Wetter, M. W., Nichols, D. S., Greene, R. L., & Berry, D. T. R. (1995). Sensitivity of MMPI-2 validity scales to underreporting of symptoms. Psychological Assessment, 7, 419-423.
4. Bell, J. B., & Whaley, B. (1991). Cheating and deception. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.
5. Block, J. (1965). The challenge of response sets. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
6. Block, J. (1990). More remarks on social desirability. American Psychologist, 45, 1076-1077.
7. Buechley, R., & Ball, H. (1952). A new test of "validity" for the group MMPI. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 16, 299-301.
8. Burkhart, B. R., Christian, W. L., & Gynther, M. D. (1978). Item subtlety and faking on the MMPI: A paradoxical relationship. Journal of Personality Assessment, 42, 76-80.
9. Butcher, J. N., & Han, K. (1995). Development of an MMPI-2 scale to assess the presentation of self in a superlative manner: The S scale. In J. N. Butcher & C. D. Spielberger (Eds.), Advances in personality assessment (Vol. 10, pp. 25-50). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
10. Cofer, C. N., Chance, J. E., & Judson, A. J. (1949). A study of malingering on the MMPI. Journal of Psychology, 27, 491-499.
11. Cronbach, L. J. (1946). Response set and test validity. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 6, 475-494.
12. Cronbach, L. J. (1950). Further evidence on response sets and test design. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 10, 3-31.
13. Damarin, F., & Messick, S. (1965). Response styles as personality variables: A theoretical integration of multivariate research (Research Bulletin 65-10). Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
14. Edwards, A. L. (1957). The social desirability variable in personality assessment and research. New York: Dryden.
15. Edwards, A. L. (1990). Construct validity and social desirability. American Psychologist, 45, 287-289.
16. Edwards, A. L., Diers, C. J., & Walker, J. N. (1962). Response sets and factor loadings on sixty-one personality scales. Journal of Applied Psychology, 46, 220-225.
17. Fairbank, J. A., McCaffrey, R. J., & Keane, T. M. (1985). Psychometric detection of fabricated symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 142, 501-503.
18. Gough, H. G. (1950). The F minus K dissimulation index for the MMPI. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 14, 408-413.
19. Gough, H. G. (1954). Some common misconceptions about neuroticism. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 18, 287-292.
20. Greene, R. L. (1978). An empirically derived MMPI carelessness scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 34, 407-410.
21. Greene, R. L. (1979). Response consistency on the MMPI: The TR index. Journal of Personality Assessment, 43, 69-71.
22. Greene, R. L. (1991) The MMPI-2/MMPI: An interpretive manual. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
23. Greene, R. L., Davis, H. G., & Welch, S. M. (1989, August). Clinical correlates of self-deception and impression management on the MMPI. Paper presented at the 97th annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta.
24. Hartshome, H., & May, M. A. (1928). Studies in deceit. New York: Macmillan.
25. Hollrath, J. L., Schlottmann, R. S., Scott, A. B., & Brunetti, D. G. (1995). Validity of the MMP. subtle items Journal of Personality Assessment, 65, 278-299.
26. Lamb, D. G., Berry, D. T. R., Wetter, M. W., & Baer, R. A. (1994). Effects of two types of information on malingering on the MMPI-2: An analogue investigation. Psychological Assessment, 6, 8-13.
27. Levin, E. E., & Gotts, E. E. (1995). The clinical application of MMPI special scales (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
28. Lewinsohn, P. M., Mischel, W., Chaplain, W., & Barton, R. (1980). Social competence and depression: The role of illusory self-perceptions? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 89, 203-212.
29. MacAndrew, C. (1965). The differentiation of male alcoholic outpatients from nonalcoholic psychiatric outpatients by means of the MMPI. Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 42, 238-246.
30. Meehl, P. E., & Hathaway, S. R. (1946). The K factor as a suppressor variable in the MMPI. Journal of Applied Psychology, 30, 525-564.
31. Megargee, E. I., Cook, P. E., & Mendelsohn, G. A. (1967). Development and valuation of an MMPI scale of assaultiveness in overcontrolled individuals. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 72, 519-528.
32. Nichols, D. S., & Greene, R. L. (1988, March). Adaptive or defensive: An evaluation of Paulhus' no-factor model of social desirability responding in the MMPI with non-college samples. Paper presented at the 23rd annual symposium on Recent Developments in the Use of the MMPI, St. Petersburg Beach, FL.
33. Nichols, D. S., & Greene, R. L. (1995). MMPI-2 Structural Summary interpretive manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
34. Nichols, D. S., Greene, R. L., & Schmolck, P. (1989). Criteria for assessing inconsistent patterns of item endorsement on the MMPI: Rationale, development, and empirical trials. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45, 239-250.
35. Otto, R. K., Lang, A. R., Megargee, E. I., & Rosenblatt, A. I. (1988). Ability of alcoholics to escape detection by the MMPI. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56, 452-457.
36. Paulhus, D. L. (1984). Two-component models of socially desirable responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 598-609.
37. Paulhus, D. L. (1986). Self-deception and impression management in test responses. In A. Angleitner & J. S. Wiggins (Eds.), Personality assessment via questionnaires: Current issues in theory and measurement (pp. 143-165). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
38. Rogers, R., Bagby, R. M., & Chakraborty, D. (1993). Feigning schizophrenic disorders on the MMPI-2: Detection of coached simulators. Journal of Personality Assessment, 60, 215-226.
39. Sivec, H. J., Hilsenroth, M. J., & Lynn, S. J. (1995). Impact of simulating borderline personality disorder on the MMPI-2: A cost-benefits model employing base rates. Journal of Personality Assessment, 64, 295-311.
40. Sivec, H. J., Lynn, S. J., & Garske, J. P. (1994). The effect of somatoform disorder and paranoid psychotic role-related dissimulations as a response set on the MMPI-2. Assessment, 1, 69-81.
41. Weil, J. L. (1989). Instinctual stimulation of children: From common practice to child abuse, Vol. 2: Clinical cases. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
42. Welsh, G. S. (1956). Factor dimensions A and R. In G. S. Welsh & W. G. Dahlstrom (Eds.), Basic readings on the MMPI in psychology and medicine (pp. 264-281). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
43. Wetter, M. W., Baer, R. A., Berry, D. T. R., & Reynolds, S. K. (1994). The effect of symptom information on faking on the MMPI-2. Assessment, 1, 199-207.
44. Wetter, M. W., Baer, R. A., Berry, D. T. R., Robison, L. H., & Sumpter, J. (1993). MMPI-2 profiles of motivated fakers given specific symptom information: A comparison to matched patients. Psychological Assessment, 5, 317-323.
45. Wiggins, J. S. (1959). Interrelationships among MMPI measures of dissimulation under standard and social desirability instructions. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 23, 419-427.
46. Wiggins, J. S. (1964). Convergences among stylistic response measures from objective personality tests. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 24, 551-562.