Malingering Posttraumatic Stress on the Personality Assessment Inventory Catherine Bowen and Richard
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The amenability of posttraumatic stress disorders to compensation claims points to the need for validated means of assessing malingered posttraumatic stress. This study investigated the ability of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) to differentiate between genuine and malingered posttraumatic stress symptoms. Treatment-seeking patients with acute stress disorder (ASD, n =15), uncoached simulators who were provided with no information about posttraumatic stress (n = 21), and coached simulators who were provided with information about posttraumatic stress symptoms (n = 21) were administered the PAI. Both uncoached and coached malingerers produced PAI profiles that over-endorsed the majority of clinical scales relative to ASD participants. Both groups of malingerers also endorsed more items on the NIM validity scale, Malingering Index and Critical items list than ASD participants. These findings are discussed in terms of the utility of the PAI as a measure of malingered posttraumatic stress.
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