title: The validity and utility of the positive presentation management and negative presentation management scales for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory.
abstract: Schinka, Kinder, and Kremer developed "validity" scales for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R; Costa & McCrae) to detect underreporting-the Positive Presentation Management (PPM) Scale and overreporting-the Negative Presentation Management (NPM) Scale. In this investigation, the clinical utility of these scales was examined using the established validity scales from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2; Butcher et al.) as the referent. The sample was composed of 370 psychiatric patients who completed the NEO PI-R and the MMPI-2 as part of a routine evaluation. Results indicated that response distortion compromised the utility of the NEO PI-R domain scales. Moreover, the PPM and NPM scales and an NPM-PPM index significantly differentiated invalid under-and overreporting groups from a valid responding group. The PPM and NPM-PPM index were adequate in classifying under- and overreporters, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Kent State University, OH 44242-0001, USA. msellbom@kent.edu
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sellbom
authors.forename: R Michael
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Bagby
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015982:Bias; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic