Are Exaggerated Health Complaints Continuous or Categorical? A Taxometric Analysis of the Health Problem Overstatement Scale

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-226

  Walters, Glenn D ^a   Berry, David T R ^b   Lanyon, Richard I ^c   Murphy, Michael P ^b  

^a FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

health complaint exaggeration; malingering; Psychological Screening Inventory; taxometric

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH PROBLEM OVERSTATEMENT SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; RATING SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 66549106943     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015306     Document Type: Article

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