Faking good and bad adjustment on the MMPI and overcontrolled-hostility in maximum security psychiatric patients.

Abstract
Male patients (25) in a maximum security psychiatric hospital were given the MMPI [Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory] under each of 3 sets of instructions, honest, fake good adjustment, fake bad adjustment. Patients were able to fake both good and bad adjustment, but various faking indices were reasonably accurate in detecting both. Overcontrolled-hostility [O-H] scale scores were related to scores on the faking indices, suggesting that high O-H scores may indicate a desire to appear normal on psychological testing.

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