Citation

Rogers R, Jackson RL, Sewell KW, Salekin KL. Crim. Justice Behav. 2005; 32(5): 511-525.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0093854805278412

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The clinical assessment of malingering requires the systematic application of empirically validated detection strategies. Prior investigations of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 have not fully addressed whether individual scales represent well-defined dimensions. The first phase of this study reexamined the original SIRS normative sample via maximum-likelihood factor analysis with promax rotation and subjected the resulting two-factor model to confirmatory factor analysis. The second phase was a cross-validation of the two-factor model on combined data from correctional-mental health and forensic settings. With one modification, the two-factor model was confirmed. The two dimensions (Spurious Presentation and Plausible Presentation) are theoretically relevant to the assessment of malingering.

Language: en