The ability of individuals with psychoactive substance use disorders to escape detection by the Personality Assessment Inventory

Article Abstract:

Patients being treated for drug abuse and instructed to respond honestly show higher scores on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) scales than those instructed to respond defensively. Their scores are also higher than a nonclinical sample and those concealing their drug abuse problem, referred by the criminal justice system. The nonclinical group shows fairly high scores on the drug and alcohol scales due to drug use in the past. However, the drug problem and the positive impression scales used provide inconsistent results on positive dissimulation.

Testing, Substance abuse, Personality Assessment Inventory

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Constructing personality scales under the assumptions of an ideal point response process: Toward increasing the flexibility of personality measures

Article Abstract:

The substantive benefits of ideal point methodology are demonstrated as compared with traditional methods of scale construction for personality assessment. Scales are constructed using traditional classical test theory, dominance item response theory (IRT) and ideal point IRT methods and merits of each method are examined in order to confirm the flexibility of the ideal point approach for creating personality measures.

Florida, Item response theory

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The mini-IPIP scales: Tiny-yet-effective measures of the big five factors of personality

Article Abstract:

The development and validation of the Mini-IPIP, a 20-item short form of the 50-item International Personality Item Pool-Five-Factor Model measure, across five studies is presented. The results show that the Mini-IPIP is a psychometrically and practically useful short measure of the Big Five factors of personality.

Methods, Difference (Psychology), Differential psychology

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