THE PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT INVENTORY-ADOLESCENT: DETECTION OF ADHD FEIGNING FACILITATED BY COACHING AND NON-COACHING INSTRUCTIONS
Abstract
The effectiveness and validity of three indicators of response distortion on the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent (PAI-A; Morey, 2007a), potentially useful to detect malingering, were evaluated by having college students complete the PAI-A under coached or non-coached conditions of faking Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The three indicators were the Negative Impression (NIM) scale, the Malingering (MAL) Index, and the Rogers discriminant function (RDF). To validate the effectiveness of the indicators, the college students’ responses on the Conner’s Adult ADHD Rating Scale (CAARS) was also evaluated; to determine who successfully simulated having ADHD. The effectiveness of providing information through visual and written means when coaching the participants in how to most accurately feign ADHD was also evaluated. The participants’ responses from both the coached and non-coached conditions were compared with the responses of clinically diagnosed ADHD patients. The results showed that all three indicators demonstrated the ability to distinguish between actual and feigned responses. The NIM scale was more effective in identifying malingering responses in the coached condition, and the Malingering Index was more effective in identifying malingering responses in the non-coached condition. The RDF was effective in identifying malingering responses in both the coached and non-coached conditions fairly the same.
Subject
non-coachedConner's Adult ADHD Rating Scale
RDF
Rogers discriminant function
MAL
Malingering index
Negative Impression scale
validity scale
validity indicators
NIM
CAARS
DSM-IV
visual
video
pretending
faking
simulating
malingering
feigning
coaching
instructions
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
PAI
Personality Assessment Inventory
Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent
ADHD
PAI-A
Citation
Diaz De Tuesta, Jessica 1991- (2012). THE PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT INVENTORY-ADOLESCENT: DETECTION OF ADHD FEIGNING FACILITATED BY COACHING AND NON-COACHING INSTRUCTIONS. Honors and Undergraduate Research. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /154392.