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PAI-SF – Psychometric Properties and Evaluation in Croatia

Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is an objective, self-report inventory, consisting of 344 items. PAI Inventory allows the psychologist to estimate 20 of the 22 Inventory scales, based on the first 160 items. This possibility can be advantageous in situations in which the examinee is not cooperative, i.e. he refuses to answer after the first half of the Inventory or is responding randomly. Also, in some studies or triage procedures, the suitability of the application of the entire Inventory can be reduced, so the ability to estimate PAI results only on the first half of the Inventory is very useful. The study aimed to examine the psychometric characteristics of the first part of the PAI Inventory (in the literature known as PAI short form, PAI-SF) on a normative sample (N = 432) of participants aged 18 to 88. The results showed the consistency of the scales formed on the first half of the Inventory which is slightly lower than the one for the whole Inventory, but is still satisfactory for most of the scales. Also, in most cases, the requirements associated with the convergence and divergence of the items and Inventory scales are fulfilled. The correlations of the particular scales that can be achieved with short-forms and their equivalents in the whole Inventory range between 0.71 and 0.93. The findings show that the results from the PAI-SF represent a good approximation of the results that would be obtained by applying the full-form Inventory.

Personality Assessment Inventory, PAI, PAI-SF, assessment, psychometric properties

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