Neurosis and conscious symptom exaggeration: its differentiation by the Illness Behaviour Questionnaire.

Publisher: Pergamon Press Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 0376333 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0022-3999 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00223999 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Psychosom Res Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Oxford : Pergamon Press
Original Publication: London.

Psychological Tests* ; Sick Role*; Malingering/*psychology ; Neurotic Disorders/*psychology ; Somatoform Disorders/*psychology; Accidents, Occupational ; Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Malingering/diagnosis ; Somatoform Disorders/diagnosis ; Wounds and Injuries/psychology

In an attempt to develop an instrument to differentiate conscious exaggerators of symptoms from normals and neurotics, the Illness Behaviour Questionnaire (IBQ) was administered to 164 members of a public utility, half of whom were instructed to fill it out as conscious exaggerators, and 82 individuals who presented at a hospital pain clinic with pain considered to be neurotically determined. Four IBQ subscales differentiated the three groups, and a new 21-item scale (CE-scale) was developed which achieved wide separation between the conscious exaggerators, neurotics and normals. It is suggested that the CE-scale may have considerable utility in assessing conscious exaggerators and compensation neurotics, and that further studies should assess its predictive value.

Date Created: 19840101 Date Completed: 19860220 Latest Revision: 20190829

20221213

10.1016/0022-3999(84)90025-4

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