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Three validation studies of the personality assessment inventory short form
Author(s) -
Ward Tara,
Arnold Kaitlin,
Cunningham Marc Clint,
Liljequist Laura
Publication year - 2018
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/jclp.22677
Subject(s) - psychology , personality assessment inventory , personality , psychometrics , short forms , clinical psychology , california psychological inventory , personality test , test validity , social psychology
Objective We examined the psychometric properties of the Personality Assessment Inventory‐Short Form (PAI‐SF). Method Study 1 compared single‐session short and full form PAI profiles of 200 outpatients, Study 2 examined PAI forms of 107 nonclinical adults across two administrations, and Study 3 compared correlations between full and short form scales and extratest variables. Results Study 1 correlations between short and full form scales ranged from 0.85 to 0.95 (Mdn = 0.91), with lower correlations, ranging from 0.59 to 0.86 for clinical scales (Mdn = 0.82), in Study 2. In Study 3 only 4 of 34 correlations differed significantly between extratest variables and the PAI versus the PAI‐SF. Conclusions These results indicate favorable psychometric properties of the PAI‐SF.