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[Relationship between malingered psychometric profiles and personality styles in prisoners]
S Mohíno Justes1, J Dolado Cuello, J Arimany Manso
1Instituto de Medicina Legal de Cataluña, Barcelona. susanamohino@teleline.es
Introduction:
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.
Subjects:
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).
Statistics:
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.
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