A Comparison of MMPI--2 measures of Psychopathic Deviance in a Forensic Setting

Autor/inn/en	Sellbom, Martin; Ben-Porath, Yossef S.; Stafford, Kathleen P.
Titel	A Comparison of MMPI--2 measures of Psychopathic Deviance in a Forensic Setting
Quelle	In: Psychological Assessment, 19 (2007) 4, S.430-436 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1040-3590
Schlagwörter	Mental Disorders; Validity; Psychopathology; Personality Measures; Measures (Individuals); Comparative Analysis; Criminals; Check Lists; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Gültigkeit; Psychopathologie; Messdaten; Straftäter; Checkliste
Abstract	We examined the convergent and discriminant validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory--2 (MMPI--2) measures of psychopathy, including the Clinical Scale 4, Restructured Clinical Scale 4 (RC4), Content Scale Antisocial Practices (ASP), and Personality Psychopathology Five Scale Disconstraint (DISC). Comparisons of the empirical correlates of these scales were conducted with 2 samples of participants evaluated at a criminal court clinic. The 2 samples included 59 men and 19 women and 913 men and 327 women, respectively. Two types of criteria (clinician ratings and archival record review) were utilized in the analyses. Relative to Clinical Scale 4, RC4 had significantly greater convergent validity in predicting psychopathy as measured by the Psychopathy Checklist--Screening Version (S. D. Hart, D. N. Cox, & R. D. Hare, 1995) and behavioral criteria associated with this construct. RC4 also showed substantially improved discriminant validity when compared with its Clinical Scale counterpart. Among all the MMPI-2 scales studied, RC4 was the best measure of the social deviance traits of psychopathy. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10