[Relationship between malingered psychometric profiles and personality styles in prisoners]. / Perfiles psicométricos fingidos en relación con estilos de personalidad en reclusos.

INTRODUCTION: One of the most typical clinical problems is the assessment of malingering in the field of forensic and penitentiary psychiatry. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this research was to find associations between different personality types and psychometric response styles. MATERIAL AND METHODS. SUBJECTS: participants consisted of 41 imprisoned male offenders. Instruments and data collection: the psychometric tools used were the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). STATISTICS: data were analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, version 10.0). A p < 0.05 significance level was proposed. RESULTS: There is significant correlation between personality types and styles of responses in the inventories. CONCLUSIONS: The greatest relationships were found between personality types shaping cluster B of DSM-IV-TR and validity indexes that measure malingering as response style.

Perfiles psicométricos fingidos en relación con estilos de personalidad en reclusos / Relationship between malingered psychometric profiles and personality styles in prisoners

Introducción. En el ámbito forense y penitenciario uno de los problemas es la evaluación de la simulación de síntomas psicopatológicos. El objetivo del presente estudio fue examinar la relación entre diversos patrones de personalidad y diferentes estilos de respuesta al contestar inventarios. Material y métodos. Sujetos: la muestra utilizada estuvo configurada por 41 varones encarcelados. Instrumentos: los instrumentos de media fueron el Inventario Clínico Multiaxial de Millon (MCMI-II) y el Minessota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI_2). Análisis estadístico: para el análisis de los datos se utilizaron diversos estadísticos descriptivos y correlaciones de Pearson a través del Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, versión 10.0). Se propuso un nivel de significación de p<0,05. Resultados. Los datos pusieron de manifiesto que existen asociaciones entre diversos prototipos de personalidad y estilos de respuesta en los inventarios. Conclusiones. Las mayores relaciones se encontraron entre los tipos de personalidad que configuran el clúster B del DSM-IVTR y los índices de validez que miden simulación de patología como estilo de respuesta (AU)

Introduction. One of the most typical clinical problems is the assessment of malingering in the field of forensic and penitentiary psychiatry. Objective. The purpose of this research was to find associations between different personality types and psychometric response styles. Material and methods. Subjects: participants consisted of 41 imprisoned male offenders. Instruments and data collections: the psychometric tools used were the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). Statistics: data were analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS, version 10.0). A p<0.05 significance level was proposed. Results. There is significant correlation between personality types and styles of responses in the inventories. Conclusion. The greatest relationships were found between personality types shaping cluster B of DSM-IV-TR and validity indexes that measure malingering as response style (AU)