Abstract
A taxometric analysis of 3 factor scales extracted from the Health Problem Overstatement (HPO) scale of the Psychological Screening Inventory (PSI; R. I. Lanyon, 1970, 1978) was performed on the data from 1,240 forensic and psychiatric patients. Mean above minus below a cut, maximum covariance, and latent-mode factor analyses produced results indicative of dimensional latent structure for the exaggerated health complaints construct. The outcome of this and several other recent taxometric investigations indicates that across 3 different domains of feigning (i.e., psychiatric symptoms, memory problems, and health complaints), the overall feigning construct is ordered continuously along 1 or more dimensions rather than partitioned into discrete categories of malingerers and nonmalingerers. These findings call for more research on the extent to which the different domains of feigning share 1 or more dimensions in common.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 219-226 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Psychological Assessment |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1 2009 |
Keywords
- Psychological Screening Inventory
- health complaint exaggeration
- malingering
- taxometric
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health