Screening For Malingered Psychopathology In A Correctional Setting: Utility Of The Miller-Forensic Assessment Of Symptoms Test (M-FAST  

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Guy, Laura S. ; Miller, Holly A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Criminal Justice and Behavior vol. 31 no. 6 (Dec. 2005), page 695-716.
Topik: M-FAST; malingering; feigning; prison; corrections
Fulltext: 695.pdf (130.95KB)

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Evidence of construct validity and generalizability for a new measure developed to screen for malingered psychopathology, the Miller-Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST), is presented for a sample of incarcerated males (N = 50) who had applied for mental health services in a maximum-security prison. Participants completed a brief diagnostic interview, the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS), and the M-FAST. SIRS-defined malingerers scored significantly higher on the M-FAST total and scale scores. Receiver operating characteristic analysis yielded an area under the curve of .92 (SEM= .04, p= .01). Consistent with previous M-FASTvalidity research, utility results indicated accurate classificationwas best achieved with an M-FAST total cutoff score of 6 (positive predictive power = .78, negative predictive power = .89). Utility analyses across race produced almost identical results indicating preliminary generalizability of the M-FAST for African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian inmates

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