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F Minus K Index

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Gough dissimulation index

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Validity indicator on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and its revisions, designed to detect overreporting of symptoms. This index is calculated by subtracting the raw score of the K scale from the raw score of the F scale. The original cutoff set by Gough (1947) for overreporting was nine. However, the literature reports disparate results for the sensitivity and specificity of this cutoff. Given that the F scale is indicative of actual psychopathology, the F minus K scale is likely to produce a high false positive rate. As a result, this scale may be one of the less-desirable measures of overreporting of symptoms. Despite this limitation, the F and K scales, either alone or in combination, may still be utilized to aid the clinical neuropsychologist in determining the patient’s response style, particularly on the clinical interview and subjective self-report measures. With these validity scores, the clinician can...

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    Richard Temple

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation Research Center, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, 07052, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA

    John DeLuca

  4. Independent Practice, 564 M.O.B. East, 100 E. Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA, 19096, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Temple, R. (2011). F Minus K Index. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_1981

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