Associations between symptom validity test failure and scores on the MMPI-2-RF validity and substantive scales

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 508-517

  Gervais, Roger O ^a,b   Wygant, Dustin B ^c   Sellbom, Martin ^d   Ben Porath, Yossef S ^e  

^a Neurobehavioural Associates   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^e KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80052339847     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2011.594132     Document Type: Article

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