The incremental validity and clinical utility of the MMPI-2 infrequency posttraumatic stress disorder scale

Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 417-429

  Marshall, Margarita B ^a   Bagby, R Michael ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fptsd scale; Malingering; MMPI 2; Overreporting; Personal injury; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MALINGERING; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; CANADA; DATABASES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MMPI; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33750146971     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191106290842     Document Type: Article

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