Use of MCMI subtle and obvious subscales to detect faking.
College students (N = 241) completed the MCMI under different instructional sets. An index of differential endorsement of subtle and obvious MCMI items was found to discriminate more strongly than the MCMI Validity Scale between subjects instructed to answer honestly and subjects instructed to fake good, fake bad, or portray specific forms of psychopathology. In addition, differential endorsement of subtle and obvious items on MCMI subscales tended to discriminate more strongly than the MCMI Validity Scale between subjects instructed to answer honestly and subjects instructed to portray the forms of psychopathology assessed by the subscales. The use of the subtle-obvious distinction to assess the validity of the MCMI is discussed.
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Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233.
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