Date of Award
Fall 2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
Department
Psychology
Committee Director
Richard Handel
Committee Member
Robert Archer
Committee Member
John D. Ball
Committee Member
Desideria Hacker
Committee Member
Michael Stutts
Abstract
The MMPI-A-RF (Archer, Handel, Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2016) is a new measure of adolescent personality and psychopathology derived from the MMPI-A (Butcher, Williams, Graham, Archer, Tellegen, Ben-Porath & Kaemmer, 1992) item pool. Similar to the MMPI-A, the MMPI-A-RF includes indexes designed to assess non-content-based responding and omitted items. Building on Handel, Ben-Porath, Tellegen & Archer’s study (2010) on adults, the current study utilized computer simulation of random, acquiescent, counteracquiescent, and omitted responses to examine how adolescent validity scale and RC scale scores are affected by increasing degrees of non-content-based responding. Further, RC scale validity coefficients were examined to see how increasing degrees of non-content-based responding attenuates these relationships. Lastly, this study examines the moderating effects of VRIN-r and TRIN-r on the relationship between RC scale and extra-test variables. Results showed that MMPI-A-RF content non-responsiveness does have a predictable impact on validity scale scores, RC scale scores, and clinical scale relationships through changes in mean T-scores, degradation of validity coefficients, and significant moderating effects. Limitations and implications of the current study are addressed.
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DOI
10.25777/pcdt-4v16
ISBN
9781369563924
Recommended Citation
Pitta, Amy C..
"Psychometric Functioning of The MMPI-A Restructured Form VRIN-R, TRIN-R, CRIN, and Cannot Say Scales with Varying Degrees of Randomness, Acquiescence, Counter-Acquiescence, and Omitted Items"
(2016). Doctor of Psychology (PsyD), Dissertation, Psychology, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/pcdt-4v16
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/psychology_etds/45
ORCID
0000-0002-8268-2767
Comments
The VIRGINIA CONSORTIUM PROGRAM IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY is a joint program of Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk State University, and Old Dominion University.