Assessing the Boundaries of Symptom Over-Reporting Using the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology in a Clinical Schizophrenia Sample: Its Relation to Symptomatology and Neurocognitive Dysfunctions

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-77

  Peters, Maarten J V ^a   Jelicic, Marko ^a   Moritz, Steffen ^b   Hauschildt, Marit ^b   Jelinek, Lena ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

neurocognitive dysfunction; schizophrenia; symptom validity; symptomatology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920518278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.023811     Document Type: Article

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