Journal article
Homelessness and Response Styles on the Personality Assessment Inventory in a Compensation-Seeking Sample
Journal of personality assessment, Vol.93(3), pp.266-269
04/20/2011
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2011.558869
PMID: 21516585
Abstract
The relationship between validity measures of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) and homelessness was investigated in this archival study. Two groups (N = 50) of compensation-seeking adults were included: homeless and domiciled. The purpose of the study was to determine if differences existed between these 2 groups on the validity measures of the PAI to inform the clinical evaluations of the compensation-seeking homeless. Results of independent sample t tests indicated no significant differences between the homeless and domiciled groups on the 4 validity scales and 2 additional indexes of exaggerated responding (Malingering Index [Morey, 1996] and Rogers Discriminant Function [Rogers, Sewell, Morey, & Ustad, 1996]). Results suggested the compensation-seeking homeless have similar elevations on the PAI validity indexes as domiciled groups seeking compensation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Homelessness and Response Styles on the Personality Assessment Inventory in a Compensation-Seeking Sample
- Creators
- Jared R Hellings - Department of Psychology , Western Washington Medical GroupDouglas M Whiteside - Department of Psychology , Argosy UniversityJames D Czysz - Psychology Associates
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of personality assessment, Vol.93(3), pp.266-269
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1080/00223891.2011.558869
- PMID
- 21516585
- ISSN
- 0022-3891
- eISSN
- 1532-7752
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/20/2011
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984083253902771
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