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Relationships among clinical and validity scales of the basic personality inventory
Author(s) -
Kroner Daryl G.,
Reddon John R.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(199407)50:4<522::aid-jclp2270500407>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - psychology , content validity , incremental validity , criterion validity , california psychological inventory , test validity , personality , personality assessment inventory , construct validity , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , concurrent validity , face validity , validity , sample (material) , clinical psychology , social psychology , internal consistency , physics , chemistry , chromatography , quantum mechanics
In interpreting the results of a self‐report inventory it is important to evaluate the extent to which stylistic distortion may have been operative. This task is complicated because validity measures frequently are confounded with content measures. In order to evaluate the potential utility of the validity measures for the Basic Personality Inventory (BPI) the relationships between validity measures and content scales were evaluated in a sample of 71 inmates. While some validity indices had significant correlations with content scales, other validity indices were relatively independent of the content scales. Recommendations are provided for using the BPI validity scales.