Crawford Eric F, Greene Roger L, Dupart Tamarra M, Bongar Bruce, Childs Helen
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Durham V.A. Medical Center, 5639 Old Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC 27707, USA.
J Pers Assess. 2006 Apr;86(2):217-21. doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8602_11.
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.
