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Psychology

Dustin B. Wygant

2009

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Examination Of The Mmpi-2 Restructured Form (Mmpi-2-Rf) Validity Scales In Civil Forensic Settings: Findings From Simulation And Known Group Samples, Dustin Wygant, Yossef Ben-Porath, Paul Arbisi, David Berry, David Freeman, Robert Heilbronner Aug 2009

Examination Of The Mmpi-2 Restructured Form (Mmpi-2-Rf) Validity Scales In Civil Forensic Settings: Findings From Simulation And Known Group Samples, Dustin Wygant, Yossef Ben-Porath, Paul Arbisi, David Berry, David Freeman, Robert Heilbronner

Dustin B. Wygant

The current study examined the effectiveness of the MMPI-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath and Tellegen, 2008) over-reporting indicators in civil forensic settings. The MMPI-2-RF includes three revised MMPI-2 over-reporting validity scales and a new scale to detect over-reported somatic complaints. Participants dissimulated medical and neuropsychological complaints in two simulation samples, and a known-groups sample used symptom validity tests as a response bias criterion. Results indicated large effect sizes for the MMPI-2-RF validity scales, including a Cohen's d of .90 for Fs in a head injury simulation sample, 2.31 for FBS-r, 2.01 for F-r, and 1.97 for Fs in a medical …