Scores on the MMPI-2-RF scales as a function of increasing levels of failure on cognitive symptom validity tests in a military sample

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 790-815

  Jones, Alvin ^a   Ingram, M Victoria ^a   Ben Porath, Yossef S ^b  

^a WOMACK ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Military sample; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 Restructured Form; MMPI 2 RF; Symptom validity tests

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISABILITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MALINGERING; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLDIER; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; MALINGERING; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MMPI; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84863653644     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2012.693202     Document Type: Article

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