The Validity and Utility of the Positive Presentation Management and Negative Presentation Management Scales for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory

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2008

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Sellbom, Martin
Bagby, R Michael

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SAGE Publications

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Schinka, Kinder, and Kremer developed "validity" scales for the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R; Costa & McCrae) to detect underreporting-the Positive Presentation Management (PPM) Scale and overreporting-the Negative Presentation Management (NPM) Scale. In this investigation, the clinical utility of these scales was examined using the established validity scales from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2; Butcher et al.) as the referent. The sample was composed of 370 psychiatric patients who completed the NEO PI-R and the MMPI-2 as part of a routine evaluation. Results indicated that response distortion compromised the utility of the NEO PI-R domain scales. Moreover, the PPM and NPM scales and an NPM-PPM index significantly differentiated invalid under-and overreporting groups from a valid responding group. The PPM and NPM-PPM index were adequate in classifying under- and overreporters, respectively.

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Keywords: adult; article; epidemiology; female; human; male; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; personality; personality disorder; psychologic test; psychometry; reproducibility; roc curve; statistics; validation study; Adult; Bias (Epidemiology); Female; MMPI-2; NEO PI-R; Overreporting; Response bias; Underreporting; Validity scales

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