Tartak Omeed, Emery Leah T, Simms Leonard J
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
J Pers Assess. 2024 Dec 9:1-12. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2024.2430315.
Individuals can sway legal, medical, employment, or other decisions by dishonestly self-reporting on psychological tests. Accordingly, the Comprehensive Assessment of Traits relevant to Personality Disorder (CAT-PD) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) include validity scales to detect overreporting and underreporting. Although many studies have empirically tested the validity scales of the MMPI-2 and the MMPI-2-RF, fewer have done so with the updated MMPI-3, and none with the CAT-PD. Therefore, in the present study, a simulation design was conducted to determine how successfully the CAT-PD and MMPI-3 validity scales would discriminate between credible responders and noncredible responders (i.e., overreporters and underreporters). Undergraduates and crowd-sourced adults (Total = 484) were randomly assigned to respond honestly, overreport, or underreport while completing the MMPI-3 and the CAT-PD. Relative to honest responders, overreporters and underreporters significantly increased their respective validity scale scores (Cohen's range = 1.04 - = 4.87); they also significantly biased their substantive scale profiles. Moreover, CAT-PD validity scales demonstrated convergent and discriminant validity with MMPI-3 validity scales and similar classification accuracy estimates receiver operating characteristic curves. These results suggest that, within a nonclinical simulation design, CAT-PD and MMPI-3 validity scales both effectively detect noncredible responding.
个体可能通过在心理测试中不诚实地自我报告来影响法律、医疗、就业或其他决策。因此，人格障碍相关特质综合评估量表（CAT-PD）和明尼苏达多相人格调查表-3（MMPI-3）都包含效度量表，以检测夸大报告和少报情况。尽管许多研究已经对MMPI-2和MMPI-2-RF的效度量表进行了实证检验，但对更新后的MMPI-3进行此类检验的研究较少，对CAT-PD的效度量表则尚无相关研究。因此，在本研究中，我们采用了模拟设计，以确定CAT-PD和MMPI-3效度量表在区分可信应答者和不可信应答者（即夸大报告者和少报者）方面的成功程度。本科生和众包成年人（共484人）在完成MMPI-3和CAT-PD时被随机分配为诚实作答、夸大报告或少报。与诚实应答者相比，夸大报告者和少报者显著提高了各自的效度量表分数（科恩效应量范围=1.04 - 4.87）；他们还显著扭曲了自己的实质性量表剖面图。此外，CAT-PD效度量表与MMPI-3效度量表显示出收敛效度和区分效度，并且在接受者操作特征曲线方面具有相似的分类准确性估计。这些结果表明，在非临床模拟设计中，CAT-PD和MMPI-3效度量表都能有效检测不可信应答。
