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Framing the Results: Assessment of Response Bias Through Select Self-Report Measures in Psychological Injury Evaluations

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Forensic psychological injury evaluations require extensive consideration of malingering and response bias. These evaluations are complicated in that they require assessment of both symptoms and symptom exaggeration across multiple domains of functioning (e.g., psychological, somatic, neurocognitive). Self-report measures are routinely utilized in psychological injury evaluations both for their economy of use and their broad coverage of symptoms. The following article reviews the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2; Butcher et al., 2001), MMPI-2-RF (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008/2011), and Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 2007). We will briefly review each instrument, focusing on their over-reporting validity indicators, and offer some general comments about their use in forensic psychological injury evaluations.

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Notes

  1. Note that when the original MMPI F items were transferred to the MMPI-2, some of these items had endorsement rates above 10 % for the MMPI-2 normative sample. Thus, while these items may have been infrequently endorsed by the original MMPI normative standard (of less than 10 %), this may not have been the case for every one of these items in relation to the MMPI-2 norms (Graham, 2011).

  2. Although the scale is now referred to as the Symptom Validity Scale rather than its original Fake Bad Scale title, the shortened FBS is still used to denote this scale.

  3. Larrabee (2012) advocated for referring to symptom validity tests (SVTs) as performance validity tests (PVTs) to clarify the extent to which an examinee’s test performance is accurately reflecting their actual level of ability.

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Sleep, C.E., Petty, J.A. & Wygant, D.B. Framing the Results: Assessment of Response Bias Through Select Self-Report Measures in Psychological Injury Evaluations. Psychol. Inj. and Law 8, 27–39 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-015-9219-1

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