Faking bad and faking good by college students on the Korean MMPI-2.
Recent studies that have investigated the utility of MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) validity scales have shown the promising efficacy of these scales in detecting faking-good and faking-bad responses. However, existing research is confined to North America, and work in other cultures is still lacking. The purpose of this study lies in exploring the efficacy of MMPI-2 validity scales in South Korea. The F, Fb, F - K, and F(p) scales of the Korean MMPI-2 (Han, 1993) were able successfully to classify faking-bad participants. The L, K, and S scales of the Korean MMPI-2 were able successfully to classify faking-good participants. Overall, the results of this study suggest that the Korean MMPI-2 works well in discriminating dishonest responses, thus confirming the applicability of the MMPI-2 validity scales in a Korean context.
Hahn
Jungwon
J
Department of Psychology, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA 01845, USA. jungwon.hahn@merrimack.edu
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D008014:Lie Detection; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010560:Personnel Selection; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results