Faking Responses and Modifying Scales of Brazilian Portuguese Version of MCMI-III

Authors

  • João Carlos Nascimento de Alencar UFRN
  • Heloísa Karmelina Carvalho de Sousa UFRN
  • Hannia Roberta Rodrigues Paiva da Rocha UFRN
  • João Carlos Alchieri UFRN

Keywords:

Faking, MCMI-III, self-report inventories, malingering, social desirability.

Abstract

Self-report inventories have been widely used since last decades. Malingering by response bias are an important matter about such psychological tests. The MCMI-III is a personality assessment inventory that has been widely used in the world, including when malingering is highly suspected. So, this article aims to investigate Desirability and Debasement Scales of MCMI-III, thus contributing to the test adaptation for Brazil. Study sample (n = 2570) comes from the whole country, and has a large spectrum of age and education. After administration of the test, participants were categorized according to scores obtained in Low, Medium and High groups, to comparison by One-way ANOVA. Statistical differences has been found among groups, and highest clinical scores found was that from high Debasement and low Desirability groups, signing to construct validity of scales.

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Author Biographies

João Carlos Nascimento de Alencar, UFRN

Acadêmico do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte e bolsista de Iniciação Científica do CNPq

Heloísa Karmelina Carvalho de Sousa, UFRN

Mestre. Doutoranda do Programa de Pos-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Hannia Roberta Rodrigues Paiva da Rocha, UFRN

Mestre. Doutoranda do Programa de Pos-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

João Carlos Alchieri, UFRN

Doutor em Psicologia e Professor adjunto do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

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Published

2012-12-04

How to Cite

de Alencar, J. C. N., de Sousa, H. K. C., da Rocha, H. R. R. P., & Alchieri, J. C. (2012). Faking Responses and Modifying Scales of Brazilian Portuguese Version of MCMI-III. Psico, 43(4). Retrieved from https://pucrs.emnuvens.com.br/revistapsico/article/view/10216

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Vol. 43 No. 4 (2012)

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