Abstract
Psychologists typically rely on patients' self-report of premorbid status in litigated settings. The authors examined the fidelity between self-reported and actual scholastic performance in litigating head injury claimants. The data indicated late postconcussion syndrome (LPCS) and severe closed head injury litigants retrospectively inflated scholastic performance to a greater degree than nonlitigating control groups. The LPCS group showed the highest magnitude of grade inflation, but discrepancy scores did not significantly correlate with a battery of malingering measures or with objective cerebral dysfunction. These findings support previous studies, which showed self-report is not a reliable basis for estimation of preinjury cognitive status. Retrospective inflation may represent a response shift bias shaped by an adversarial context rather than a form of malingering.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 202-208 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Psychological Assessment |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Applied Psychology
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Actual versus self-reported scholastic achievement of litigating postconcussion and severe closed head injury claimants. / Greiffenstein, M. Frank; John Baker, W.; Johnson-Greene, Douglas E.
In: Psychological Assessment, Vol. 14, No. 2, 01.06.2002, p. 202-208.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AB - Psychologists typically rely on patients' self-report of premorbid status in litigated settings. The authors examined the fidelity between self-reported and actual scholastic performance in litigating head injury claimants. The data indicated late postconcussion syndrome (LPCS) and severe closed head injury litigants retrospectively inflated scholastic performance to a greater degree than nonlitigating control groups. The LPCS group showed the highest magnitude of grade inflation, but discrepancy scores did not significantly correlate with a battery of malingering measures or with objective cerebral dysfunction. These findings support previous studies, which showed self-report is not a reliable basis for estimation of preinjury cognitive status. Retrospective inflation may represent a response shift bias shaped by an adversarial context rather than a form of malingering.
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