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Forensic and correctional applications of the personality assessment inventory
Author(s) -
Edens John F.,
Cruise Keith R.,
BuffingtonVollum Jacqueline K.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/bsl.457
Subject(s) - personality assessment inventory , personality , psychopathology , psychology , poison control , clinical psychology , psychological testing , human factors and ergonomics , applied psychology , psychometrics , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , social psychology , medicine , medical emergency
Abstract The relative utility of psychological tests for addressing legal issues is an area of considerable debate in the field. Regardless of the merits of psychological testing, it is apparent that such instruments are used widely both to address specific psycholegal issues and to evaluate offender populations more generally. One instrument gaining prominence in terms of its use in both forensic and correctional settings is the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991), which was developed to assess various constructs relevant to clinical settings (e.g. psychopathology, response distortion, and personality traits). This paper reviews the psychometric properties of the PAI specifically in reference to its ability to assess factors relevant to forensic decision‐making, as well as its utility to provide clinically relevant information about offender populations more generally. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.