Strong David R, Glassmire David M, Frederick Richard I, Greene Roger L
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02906, USA.
Psychol Assess. 2006 Sep;18(3):250-61. doi: 10.1037/1040-3590.18.3.250.
P. A. Arbisi and Y. S. Ben-Porath (1995) originally proposed that the Infrequency Psychopathology scale, F(p), be used as the final step in an algorithm to determine the validity of a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) protocol. The current study used taxometric procedures to determine the latent structure of F(p) among examinees with profiles that would necessitate the interpretation of F(p) when using Arbisi and Ben-Porath's proposed algorithm. Participants included a subsample of 289 consecutively referred pretrial forensic examinees adjudicated incompetent to stand trial with high Infrequency (F) scale scores, thereby providing a sample that would be expected to have a high base rate of persons with bona fide psychopathology and persons with incentive to overreport psychopathology. Using MAMBAC and MAXEIG, F(p) produced a taxonic latent structure within the subgroup of examinees who obtained raw scores on F of greater than 17. These results support Arbisi and Ben-Porath's original proposal to use F(p) to identify a distinct subgroup of overreported MMPI-2 protocols within forensic psychiatric examinees with high elevations on F. Implications and suggestions for future research are provided.
P. A. 阿比西和Y. S. 本-波拉特（1995年）最初提议将低频精神病理学量表F(p)用作一种算法的最后一步，该算法用于确定明尼苏达多相人格调查表第二版（MMPI-2）测验结果的效度。本研究采用分类分析程序来确定在使用阿比西和本-波拉特提出的算法时，那些其测验结果需要对F(p)进行解释的受测者中F(p)的潜在结构。参与者包括289名连续转介的审前法医受测者的一个子样本，这些受测者被判定无受审能力且低频（F）量表得分较高，从而提供了一个预计有高比例真正患有精神病理学的人和有夸大精神病理学动机的人的样本。使用MAMBAC和MAXEIG方法，F(p)在F原始得分大于17的受测者子群体中产生了一种分类潜在结构。这些结果支持了阿比西和本-波拉特最初的提议，即使用F(p)来识别法医精神病学受测者中F得分较高且MMPI-2测验结果被夸大报告的一个独特子群体。文中还提供了对未来研究的启示和建议。
