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The F/F-r is a validity scale on the MMPI-2/A/-RF that assess an individual’s tendency to endorse uncommon symptoms or level distress/dysfunction in certain populations.
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The F/F-r scale is a validity scale developed on the original Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Dahlstrom et al. 1972) and all additional versions: MMPI-2 (Butcher et al. 2001), restructured form (MMPI-2-RF; Ben-Porath and Tellegen 2008), and adolescent (MMPI-A; Butcher et al. 1992). According to the administration and scoring manual, an elevation on this scale is indicative of the individual endorsing a number of symptoms that were not reported by the majority of the original normative group and the profile produced may not be a valid representation of current symptoms. However, F scale elevations also measure distress and the severity of psychopathology in some groups, such as traumatized or psychotic patients,...
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Bailey, T.D., Brand, B.L. (2017). F Scale. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_896-1
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