[Relationship between malingered psychometric profiles and personality styles in prisoners].

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.