Personality Assessment Inventory

Abstract

The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) is a 344‐item self‐report inventory that assesses various domains of personality and psychopathology among adults and was designed for use in professional and research settings. Items are answered on a 4‐point Likert‐type scale according to the extent to which they reflect true descriptions of client experiences. These items are then combined into 22 nonoverlapping full scales, including 4 validity scales, 11 clinical scales, 5 treatment consideration scales, and 2 interpersonal scales (see Table 1). As shown in Table 1, 10 of the full scales contain conceptually derived subscales that were designed to facilitate interpretation and coverage of the clinical constructs. Administration of the inventory takes approximately 50–60 minutes, and test takers should have a reading ability at the fourth‐grade level.

Personality Assessment Inventory internalizing and externalizing structure in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: Associations with aggression

“…Consistent with other research (Hopwood & Moser, 2011), T-scores were calculated using the PAI census-matched standardization sample (Morey, 1991). The mean of the T-scores across the 13 scales was 66.86 (SD = 7.02).…”

“…The content of these scales is non-overlapping (Morey, 1991). Internal consistency has been established across samples, with α scores of the full scales ranging from .77 to .86 (Morey, 1996).…”

“…The analyses presented here used the 11 clinical scales and the Aggression and Suicidal Ideation treatment scales. Valid profiles meeting the following criteria (Morey, 1991;Rogers, Sewell, Morey, & Ustad, 1996) were included in analyses: Infrequency scale T ≤ 75; Inconsistency scale T ≤ 73; Rogers Discriminant Function T ≤ 70; and Positive Impression scale T ≤ 75.…”

Occurrence and co-occurrence of nonsuicidal self-injury and disordered eating in a daily diary study: Which behavior, when?

“…This method provides relatively complete coverage of daily experiences and facilitated the examination of mood intensity and variability on days with and without NSSI and 1 Given that the analyses focused on a subset of the full sample recruited for this study, we compared participants who met inclusion and exclusion criteria for the NSSI group to the subset included in the present analyses. Compared to the full sample, participants in the subsample did not differ with respect to lifetime frequency of NSSI (t(58) = -1.21, p = 0.23), number of current or lifetime psychiatric disorders (ts(58) = -1.28 to -1.67, ps > 0.10), presence of current mood, substance use or anxiety disorders (χ 2 s = 0.26 to 0.73, ps > 0.25), or severity of borderline personality symptoms (t(58) = -1.63, p = 0.11), as assessed by the Personality Assessment Inventory (Morey, 1991). Moreover, there were no differences in endorsement of intrapersonal or interpersonal functions of NSSI between the subsample and full sample (ts(55) = 0.63 to 1.59, ps > 0.10).…”

How is affective instability defined and measured? A systematic review

“…Personality Assessment Inventory -Borderline Features Scale (Morey, 1991) IC for whole scale α=0.70.…”