title: [Relationship between malingered psychometric profiles and personality styles in prisoners].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Medicina Legal de Cataluña, Barcelona. susanamohino@teleline.es
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohíno Justes
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dolado Cuello
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arimany Manso
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ortega-Monasterio
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cuquerella Fuentes
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vilardell Molas
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Planchat Teruel
mesh_terms: 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