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Evaluating the Consistency of Scales Used in Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Assessment of College-Aged Adults
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Saleh, Ayman; Fuchs, Catherine; Taylor, Warren D.; Niarhos, Frances – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: Neurocognitive evaluations are commonly integrated with clinical assessment to evaluate adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Study goal is to identify measures most strongly related to ADHD diagnosis and to determine their utility in screening processes. Participants: 230 students who were evaluated at the Vanderbilt…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, College Students, Adults, Rating Scales
Reliability and Validity of the World Health Organization Quality of Life: Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) in a Homeless Substance Dependent Veteran Population
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Garcia-Rea, Elizabeth A.; LePage, James P. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
With the high number of homeless, there is a critical need for rapid and accurate assessment of quality of life to assess program outcomes. The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-100 has demonstrated promise in accurately assessing quality-of-life in this population. However, its length may make large scale use impractical for working with a…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Personality Assessment, Quality of Life, Test Validity
The Utility of the PAI and the MMPI-2 for Discriminating PTSD, Depression, and Social Phobia in Trauma-Exposed College Students
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McDevitt-Murphy, Meghan E.; Weathers, Frank W.; Flood, Amanda M.; Eakin, David E.; Benson, Trisha A. – Assessment, 2007
This study investigated the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Revised (MMPI-2; Butcher, Dahlstrom, Graham, Tellegen, & Kaemmer, 1989) and the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) with regard to each instrument's utility for discriminating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from depression and social phobia in a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality Assessment, Depression (Psychology), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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
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Douglas, Kevin S.; Guy, Laura S.; Edens, John F.; Boer, Douglas P.; Hamilton, Jennine – Assessment, 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…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Personality, Check Lists, Validity
Convergent Validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory: A Study of Emergency Referrals in a Correctional Setting.
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Rogers, Richard; Ustad, Karen L.; Salekin, Randall T. – Assessment, 1998
The convergent validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) (Morey, 1991) was examined with 80 referrals in a correctional facility. Comparison of PAI results with those from four other measures reveals moderate to good convergent validity for screening for feigned profiles, clinical correlates of common disorders, and evaluating…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Personality Assessment
On the Validity of Validity Scales: The Importance of Defensive Responding in the Prediction of Institutional Misconduct
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Edens, John F.; Ruiz, Mark A. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
This study examined the effects of defensive responding on the prediction of institutional misconduct among male inmates (N = 349) who completed the Personality Assessment Inventory (L. C. Morey, 1991). Hierarchical logistic regression analyses demonstrated significant main effects for the Antisocial Features (ANT) scale as well as main effects…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Personality Measures, Males, Institutionalized Persons
Spanish Versions of the MMPI-2 and PAI: An Investigation of Concurrent Validity with Hispanic Patients.
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Fantoni-Salvador, Patricia; Rogers, Richard – Assessment, 1997
The concurrent validity of Spanish versions of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 and the Personality Assessment Inventory (L. Morey, 1991) was studied with 105 Hispanic patients using a revised Spanish version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (L. Robins and others, 1981) as the criterion measure. Results suggest that both…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Hispanic Americans, Patients, Personality Assessment