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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Personality Assessment Inventory"”.
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THE UTILITY OF THE PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT INVENTORY
… Disorder (AD/HD) in adults using the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) T-scores was investigated. Archival data from closed client files at a university counseling center were used to obtain information from 91 cases of individuals who received testing services and were diagnosed …
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Restraint influence on state anxiety and personality assessment inventory responding
… Schedule (PANAS), and a multiscale (trait) inventory, the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). Due to sample size limitations, experimental conditions (cuffed and partial-cuffed) were combined into the restrained condition for analyses and compared to their uncuffed (unrestrained) …
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Detecting feigning in adolescents on the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent form
… on identifying feigning in psychological assessment has focused on adults despite the idea that adolescents are also capable of deception. The purpose of the present study is to expand the limited literature base on detecting feigning in adolescents when administered the Personality …
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Detecting malingered ADHD using the personality assessment inventory : an exploratory analysis in college students
Background: There has been a growing interest in assessment of effort during psychoeducational evaluations, where students may feign symptoms of ADHD to obtain academic accommodations or stimulant medications. Current research suggests most ADHD questionnaires and neuropsychological tests do not …
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Profiles of Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Using the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
<p>Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is often diagnosed in childhood. However, the disorder can be more complex to diagnose in adulthood as several comorbid disorders may also impact attention. Many symptoms, often prevalent in childhood, taper off in adulthood, adding to the …
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Profile analysis of the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolesence (PAI-A) for individuals with autism spectrum disorder
… display a unique pattern of responses on the Personality Assessment Inventory – Adolescent (PAI-A). Specifically, a profile analysis was conducted to determine if the pattern could be used to identify and diagnose adolescents with ASD. Twenty Adolescents between ages 12 and 18 completed the …
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Exploring Gender Differences Between Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder in Responses on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
<p>Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder are two diagnoses that are often difficult to differentiate. Current literature supports this challenge and reveals a high rate of misdiagnosis between the two, as well as a high prevalence of borderline personality disorder diagnoses in …
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An Investigation of Gender Bias in the Personality Assessment Inventory in a Sample of Military Veterans of the United States
… the possible effects of gender bias within the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) as applied within the United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA). A quantitative descriptive design was employed using preexisting clinical data obtained from the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) as …
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Les effets de deux types d'informations sur la simulation d'un état de stress post-traumatique mesurés par le Personality Assessment Inventory
… un état de stress post-traumatique (ESPT) sur le Personality Assessment Inventory [(PAI) Morey, 1991], sans tre détectés. Le premier type d'informations consistait en une liste des symptômes d'un état de stress post-traumatique (ESPT), alors que le second était une description de l'échelle de …
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Comparing rates of anxiety symptoms in adolescent females with and without autism
… from the local catchment area to complete the Personality Assessment Inventory-Adolescent (PAI-A). Matched female control subjects (i.e., not diagnosed with ASD) were obtained from the PAI-A clinical and community standardization samples. Analyses of score patterns on the anxiety and …
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Stimulant Use, Associated Psychopathology, and Eating Disordered Symptomatology
… study developed profiles of eating disorder, personality, and other psychopathological symptoms related to the use of central nervous system stimulants versus other types of drug use. Participants included 124 women in residential treatment for substance use with and without comorbid eating …
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Coping with health-related problems and psychological distress amongst older adult hospital patients
… and Somatic Complaints subscales from the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Coping With Health Injuries and Problems Scale. Hierarchical regression analyses were the main technique employed to analyse the data. Results indicate that Negative Emotion Coping was a consistent and …
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Are There Personality Factors That Can Undermine Moral Judgment Development?
… social networking (Derryberry & Thoma, 2000). Personality factors facilitating moral judgment have also receive attention in recent years with Damon and Hart (1988) exploring self-understanding as a possible factor in moral judgment and Baumeister and Exline (1999) proposing that exercising …
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The Relationship Between Depression and Cognitive Proficiency Index Across Biological Sex
… the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Personality Assessment Inventory Depression Index—which includes cognitive, affective, and physiological subscales—this research explored whether depressive symptoms relate to cognitive proficiency differently for men and women. Archival data were …
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Psychological and neuropsychological correlates of Postconcussional Disorder
… index was developed using the subscales of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PMDI), based the scoring of the Brief Symptom Inventory Positive Symptom Distress Index. Postconcussive symptoms were moderately correlated with PMDI scores and with specific scales on the PAI (anxiety, anxiety …
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College Women And Social Networking Sites: Reasons For Use And Related Mental Health Constructs
… little in terms of the relationship between personality factors and SNS use. The extant literature is limited to the &ldquo Big Five &rdquo personality traits. Even fewer studies look at mental health constructs such as depression and anxiety and their roles in determining individuals' …
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The establishment of implicit perspectives of personality among Zulu-speaking people in South Africa
The application of personality assessment for clinical and personnel decisions has long been an activity of interest to psychologists all over the world. In South Africa, personality assessment tools are used for the purpose of hiring, for placement decisions, to guide and assess training and …
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Psychometric Properties of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory in a Non-criminal Population
<p>The Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) is a self-report measure which was created to identify the personality traits of psychopathy in noncriminal populations. These personality traits were grouped into eight subscales in the PPI including Machiavellian Egocentricity, Social Potency, …
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PPI-R: Factor Structure in a Diverse Subclinical Sample
… the factor structure of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory – Revised (PPI-R) has yielded mixed results. This study attempted to examine the three proposed factor structures (one-, two-, or three-) for the PPI-R utilizing a mixed gender undergraduate sample. Results demonstrated poor …