Yoxall Jacqueline, Bahr Mark, O'Neill Thomas
School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Coolangatta, QLD, Australia.
School of Psychology, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, QLD, Australia.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2017 Mar 8;24(5):682-693. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2017.1291295. eCollection 2017.
The workers compensation system provides a clear external incentive for deliberate feigning of physical or mental illness to some individuals. Although it has been asserted that all pre-liability workers compensation psychological assessments should involve assessment of deliberate feigning, the lack of an agreed standard for assessing this response style creates a substantial challenge in practice. Over the last two decades, substantial attention has been given to measures of psychopathology that also include validated negative distortion indices. The Personality Assessment Inventory) has been validated in both the clinical and forensic population, and is reportedly used by many Australian psychologists. This study explores rates of elevation of negative distortion scales on the PAI as a potential indicator of deliberate feigning in a large Australian workers compensation sample.
工人赔偿制度为一些人故意伪装身体或精神疾病提供了明确的外部诱因。尽管有人断言，所有责任认定前的工人赔偿心理评估都应包括对故意伪装的评估，但缺乏评估这种反应方式的统一标准在实践中构成了重大挑战。在过去二十年里，人们对精神病理学测量给予了大量关注，这些测量也包括经过验证的负性扭曲指标。《人格评估问卷》已在临床和法医人群中得到验证，据报道许多澳大利亚心理学家都在使用。本研究探讨了在一个大型澳大利亚工人赔偿样本中，作为故意伪装潜在指标的《人格评估问卷》负性扭曲量表的升高率。
