[Relationship between malingered psychometric profiles and personality styles in prisoners].
BACKGROUND
One of the most typical clinical problems is the assessment of malingering in the field of forensic and penitentiary psychiatry.


OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this research was to find associations between different personality types and psychometric response styles. MATERIAL AND METHODS.


METHODS
participants consisted of 41 imprisoned male offenders. Instruments and data collection: the psychometric tools used were the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2).


METHODS
data were analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, version 10.0). A p < 0.05 significance level was proposed.


RESULTS
There is significant correlation between personality types and styles of responses in the inventories.


CONCLUSIONS
The greatest relationships were found between personality types shaping cluster B of DSM-IV-TR and validity indexes that measure malingering as response style.
Mohíno Justes
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Instituto de Medicina Legal de Cataluña, Barcelona. susanamohino@teleline.es
Dolado Cuello
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Arimany Manso
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Ortega-Monasterio
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Cuquerella Fuentes
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Vilardell Molas
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Planchat Teruel
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008306:Malingering / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011584:Psychology; D011594:Psychometrics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires