PSYCO335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Theodore Millon, Child Behavior Checklist, Discriminant Validity

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO335
• Professor: Jaylene Brinker

Document Summary

In 2005, lima and colleagues found that providing self-report personality data to psychologists had no impact on the number of sessions patients attended, whether therapy ended prematurely, or overall patient improvement in functioning. A large number of unanswered items indicates defensive responding: lie scale (l): a measure of self-presentation that is unrealistically positive. Infrequency scale (f): a measure of self-presentation that is very unfavourable. This can indicate a desire to present oneself as having severe psychopathology, or it can be an accurate report of substantial distress, disorganization, or confusion: defensiveness scale (k): a measure of unwillingness to disclose personal information and problems. This scale measures a possible change in self-presentation, which may be due to a change in test-taking strategy: visible response inconsistency scale (trin): this scale is based on answers to item pairs that are opposite in content. A very high score indicates the tendency to give true" answers indiscriminately; a very low score indicates the opposite.