ERIC Number: EJ771910
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1073-1911
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The Personality Assessment Inventory as a Proxy for the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised: Testing the Incremental Validity and Cross-Sample Robustness of the Antisocial Features Scale
Douglas, Kevin S.; Guy, Laura S.; Edens, John F.; Boer, Douglas P.; Hamilton, Jennine
Assessment, v14 n3 p255-269 2007
The Personality Assessment Inventory's (PAI's) ability to predict psychopathic personality features, as assessed by the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), was examined. To investigate whether the PAI Antisocial Features (ANT) Scale and subscales possessed incremental validity beyond other theoretically relevant PAI scales, optimized regression equations were derived in a sample of 281 Canadian federal offenders. ANT, or ANT-Antisocial Behavior (ANT-A), demonstrated unique variance in regression analyses predicting PCL-R total and Factor 2 (Lifestyle Impulsivity and Social Deviance) scores, but only the Dominance (DOM) Scale was retained in models predicting Factor 1 (Interpersonal and Affective Deficits). Attempts to cross-validate the regression equations derived from the first sample on a sample of 85 U.S. sex offenders resulted in considerable validity shrinkage, with the ANT Scale in isolation performing comparably to or better than the statistical models for PCL-R total and Factor 2 scores. Results offer limited evidence of convergent validity between the PAI and the PCL-R. (Contains 13 notes and 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Personality, Check Lists, Validity, Personality Assessment, Regression (Statistics), Psychopathology, Test Validity, Antisocial Behavior, Psychometrics, Predictor Variables, Criminals, Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada; United States
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Personality Assessment Inventory
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