Abstract
The SCT-75 is a structured sentence completion test containing scales to assess three aspects of misrepresentation during psychological/psychiatric evaluation in a personal injury context: injury enhancement, angry life-difficulty exaggeration, and virtue enhancement. The present study evaluated the ability of these scales to add incremental validity beyond what could be obtained from relevant scales of the MMPI-2. Criteria to be predicted included total number of prescribed medications, involvement in litigation, and admission/denial of present and past substance abuse. As expected, inclusion of the SCT-75 scales resulted in improved correlations for one or more criterion variables.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 57-67 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Nov 21 2008 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine
- Psychiatry and Mental health