TY - JOUR
T1 - A psychological test battery to detect prison inmates who fake insanity or mental retardation
AU - Schretlen, David
AU - Arkowitz, Hal
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - A contrasted groups design was used to investigate the accuracy with which a test battery could detect persons faking mental disorder. The MMPI and Bender Gestalt were used in combination with a Malingering Scale that was developed for initial validation. One hundred adult males comprised five groups of 20 subjects each. Noncriminal psychiatric inpatients and mental retardates were compared with prison inmates who were given a financial incentive to successfully fake ‘insanity’ or mental retardation, and with inmate controls. Based on discriminant analyses, 92 to 95% of subjects were correctly classified as either faking or not faking. Although cross‐validation is needed, this study reduced many of the analog factors which have comprised the generalizability of previous findings.
AB - A contrasted groups design was used to investigate the accuracy with which a test battery could detect persons faking mental disorder. The MMPI and Bender Gestalt were used in combination with a Malingering Scale that was developed for initial validation. One hundred adult males comprised five groups of 20 subjects each. Noncriminal psychiatric inpatients and mental retardates were compared with prison inmates who were given a financial incentive to successfully fake ‘insanity’ or mental retardation, and with inmate controls. Based on discriminant analyses, 92 to 95% of subjects were correctly classified as either faking or not faking. Although cross‐validation is needed, this study reduced many of the analog factors which have comprised the generalizability of previous findings.
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U2 - 10.1002/bsl.2370080109
DO - 10.1002/bsl.2370080109
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0025288869
SN - 0735-3936
VL - 8
SP - 75
EP - 84
JO - Behavioral Sciences & the Law
JF - Behavioral Sciences & the Law
IS - 1
ER -