Validity Scales
This validity scale assesses exaggerated or unusual symptom reporting and is often elevated in cases of malingering.
What is the F (Infrequent Response) Scale?
This scale is associated with depressive symptoms such as sadness, hopelessness, and low self-esteem.
What is the Demoralization (RCd) Scale?
This scale helps identify substance use problems and related behaviors.
What is the Substance Use (SUB) Scale?
Evaluate the extent to which a person exhibits aggressive tendencies. It helps clinicians understand an individual's potential for engaging in hostile or aggressive interactions
AGGR Aggressiveness Scale
A 28-year-old female with a history of drug use shows and a disregard for others.
What is high scores on the RC4 (Antisocial Behavior) and SUB (Substance Use) scales.
Identifying individuals who may be providing dishonest or exaggerated responses.
What is the L (Uncommon Virtues) Scale?
This scale measures suspiciousness and beliefs of being persecuted.
What is the Ideas of Persecution (RC6) Scale?
This scale measures the degree of family and social conflict experienced by the individual.
What is the Family Problems (FAM) Scale?
evaluate psychotic traits and symptoms that could indicate serious mental health issues. It is particularly relevant for identifying individuals who may be at risk for or are currently experiencing psychotic disorders.
What is the (PSYC) Psychoticism Scale?
Maria is a 27-year-old artist who has recently been experiencing vivid and unusual sensory perceptions. She often hears voices whispering her name when no one is around and occasionally sees shadows moving in the corner of her eye. These experiences sometimes make her feel detached from reality, as if she is living in a dream-like state. Despite recognizing that these sensations are not real, she finds them distressing and is unsure if she can trust her own senses. What scale would be elevated?
What is Aberrant Experiences (RC8)
This scale assesses the respondent's tendency to underreport symptoms or present themselves in an overly favorable manner, potentially indicating denial or defensiveness in self-reporting.
What is the K (Adjustment Validity) Scale?
Elevated scores on this scale can indicate antisocial behaviors and disregard for social norms.
What is the Antisocial Behavior (RC4) Scale?
designed to evaluate how likely an individual is to engage in impulsive actions that may have negative consequences. It helps identify behaviors that reflect poor self-control and decision-making.
What is the Impulsivity (IMP) Scale?
evaluate the degree to which an individual may engage in behaviors that reflect a lack of constraints, including impulsive decision-making and thrill-seeking activities. It helps identify individuals who may struggle with self-regulation and behavioral control.
What is the (DISC) Disconstraint Scale?
John is a 32-year-old software engineer who struggles with intense feelings of anxiety if things are not done in a very specific way. He has a rigid routine: he wakes up at 5:30 AM every day, makes his bed with military precision, and follows a strict schedule down to the minute. He spends hours each day meticulously checking and rechecking his work, often missing deadlines because he cannot stop perfecting details. John feels distressed if he is unable to follow his routines and becomes irritable when others disrupt his plans. What scale would be significantly raise?
what is Compulsivity (CMP)?
Morgan has taken a lot of psychology classes. When being assessed for a personality disorder, she tries to stop her histrionic personality from coming out. What scale is she high on?
What is the K (Adjustment Validity) Scale?
This scale measures the individuals capacity to experience joy, satisfaction, or other positive emotional states.
What is the Low Positive Emotions (RC2) Scale?
This scale evaluates a tendency towards rigid and perfectionistic thinking patterns.
What is the Compulsivity (CPS) Scale?
evaluate emotional vulnerabilities and tendencies that may affect an individual's mental health. It helps identify individuals who are prone to experiencing high levels of negative affect, which can impact their daily functioning and relationships
What is the (NEGE) Negative Emotionality/ Neuroticism?
A 25-year-old male presents as extremely distressed, claiming to hear voices and experience paranoia.
What is high scores on (RC8) Aberrant Experiences and (RC6) Ideas of Persecution and (PSYC) Psychoticism
JJ killed someone and wants her lawyers to use the insanity defense, even though she killed them for self-defense and has no insanity problems. What scale is she high on?
What is the F (Infrequent Response) Scale?
measures traits and behaviors typically associated with elevated mood, increased energy, impulsivity, and a reduced need for sleep
What is the Hypomanic Activation (RC9) Scale?
aims to identify individuals who may experience cognitive distortions, thought disorder symptoms, or unusual beliefs that deviate from typical thinking patterns.
What is the Thought dysfunction (THD) Scale?
designed to evaluate characteristics associated with introversion, such as social withdrawal, preference for solitude, and a tendency to experience lower levels of positive emotions, including joy and enthusiasm.
What is the (INTR) Introversion/Low Positive Emotionality scale
A 45-year-old male convicted of a violent crime shows with manic behavior.
What is high scores on the AGG-r (Aggressiveness) and RC9 (Hypomanic Activation) scales.