[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)

Discriminating deliberate self-harm (DSH) in young prison inmates through personality disorder.

This study investigated deliberate self-harm (DSH) in young inmates. The objectives are twofold: first, to identify the social and clinical characteristics of inmates who commit DSH; and secondly, to ascertain the types of personality who are vulnerable in order to be able to predict future inmates who may harm themselves. A cross-sectional design was used to study psychosocial correctional personality characteristics and clinical pictures in inmates with DSH versus a control group without DSH. The measures used to evaluate different variables were a standard protocol and a self-report questionnaire (MCMI-II). Although the two groups compared are homogeneous and similar in terms of different psychosocial variables, inmates with DSH presented a significant background of maltreatment. Borderline, passive-aggressive, and antisocial personality disorders best discriminated both groups. The detection of borderline, negativistic, and antisocial disorders may help the medical services of penitentiary centers to predict youths with a possible risk of DSH. Despite the results obtained, longitudinal studies are needed to help clarify other risk factors, as well as other risk factors leading to self-harm behavior.