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Personality Assessment Inventory

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The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey 1991) is a self-report measure of personality and psychopathology consisting of 4 Validity, 11 Clinical, 5 Treatment Consideration, and 2 Interpersonal scales, as well as conceptually derived subscales and risk indexes (Morey 2007). Scales (acronyms: number of items per scale) are as follows: Validity – Inconsistency (ICN: 10 item pairs), Infrequency (INF: 8), Negative Impression (NIM: 9), and Positive Impression (PIM: 9); Clinical – Somatic Complaints (SOM: 24), Anxiety (ANX: 24), Anxiety-Related Disorders (ARD: 24), Depression (DEP: 24), Mania (MAN: 24), Paranoia (PAR: 24), Schizophrenia (SCZ: 24), Borderline Features (BOR: 24), Antisocial Features (ANT: 24), Alcohol Problems (ALC: 12), and Drug Problems (DRG: 12); Treatment – Aggression (AGG: 18), Suicidal Ideation (SUI: 12), Stress (STR: 8), Nonsupport (NON: 8), and Treatment Rejection (RXR: 8); Interpersonal– Dominance (DOM: 12), and Warmth (WRM: 12)...

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  1. Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Denver, CO, USA

    Lisa A. Brenner & Molly Penzenik

  2. University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

    Lisa A. Brenner & Molly Penzenik

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  1. Lisa A. Brenner
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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation, Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Independent Practice, Wynnewood, PA, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Brenner, L.A., Penzenik, M. (2018). Personality Assessment Inventory. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_2003

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