title: MMPI-2 assessment of malingered emotional distress related to a workplace injury: a mixed group validation.
abstract: In this study, we examined the capacity of MMPI-2 (Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 2001) validity indexes to identify malingered depression associated with a workplace injury. We compared 27 graduate students simulating depression with archival records of 33 inpatients diagnosed with major depressive disorder. We employed a mixed-group validation design to generate true positive rates (TPR) and false positive rates (FPR) for the various MMPI-2 validity scales [F, FB, F(p), FBS, F - K, Ds2] while we accounted for base rates of malingering in each sample. The Fake Bad scale (FBS) was the only validity measure that produced acceptable TPR and FPR or a significant correlation with malingering status.
authors.affiliation: Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Durham V.A. Medical Center, 5639 Old Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC 27707, USA. ecrawford@pgsp.edu
authors.forename: Eric F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Crawford
authors.forename: Roger L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.forename: Tamarra M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Dupart
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bongar
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Childs
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008306:Malingering / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013781:Texas; D017132:Workplace; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology*