The goal of the MMPI-2-RF was to extend the work that began with the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical (RC Tellegen et al., 2003) scales by developing a set of substantive scales that would exhaustively capture the clinically relevant content of the MMPI-2 item pool, but with improved psychometric properties, including reduced scale intercorrelations and equivalent or enhanced discriminant and convergent validity compared with existing MMPI-2 scales. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008) is comprised of 338 of the original 567 items of the MMPI-2 ( Butcher et al., 2001). MMPI-2, MMPI-2-RF, Memory complaints, Response Bias Scale, Malingering, Forensic evaluation Introduction
This is consistent with the development objectives of the MMPI-2-RF validity scales as more efficient and sensitive measures of symptom over-reporting. Regression analyses demonstrated the incremental validity of the MMPI-2-RF Infrequent Responses, Infrequent Psychopathology Responses, Infrequent Somatic Responses, and FBS-r scales relative to MMPI-2 F, Fp, and FBS in predicting memory complaints. RBS showed the strongest relationship with memory complaints.
The MMPI-2-RF over-reporting validity scales were more strongly associated with mean Memory Complaints Inventory scores than their MMPI-2 counterparts ( d = 0.22 to 0.49). This study examined the incremental validity of MMPI-2-RF validity scales and RBS in assessing memory complaints. The MMPI-2-Restructured Form (RF) validity scales were designed to meet or exceed the sensitivity of their MMPI-2 counterparts to symptom over-reporting. The Response Bias Scale (RBS) has been found to be a better predictor of over-reported memory complaints than Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) F, Back Infrequency (Fb), Infrequency-Psychopathology (Fp), and FBS scales.