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2010

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Dustin B. Wygant

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Further Validation Of The Mmpi-2 And Mmpi-2-Rf Response Bias Scale: Findings From Disability And Criminal Forensic Settings, Dustin Wygant, Martin Sellbom, Roger Gervais Sep 2010

Further Validation Of The Mmpi-2 And Mmpi-2-Rf Response Bias Scale: Findings From Disability And Criminal Forensic Settings, Dustin Wygant, Martin Sellbom, Roger Gervais

Dustin B. Wygant

The present study extends the validation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Response Bias Scale (RBS; R. O. Gervais, Y. S. Ben-Porath, D. B. Wygant, & P. Green, 2007) in separate forensic samples composed of disability claimants and criminal defendants. Using cognitive symptom validity tests as response bias indicators, the RBS exhibited large effect sizes (Cohen's ds = 1.24 and 1.48) in detecting cognitive response bias in the disability and criminal forensic samples, respectively. The scale also added incremental prediction to the traditional MMPI-2 and the MMPI-2-RF overreporting validity scales …