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Introduction
The Califonia Psychological Inventory (CPI) is one of the oldest and most commonly-used standardized tests available to assess personality in non-clinical adult populations. The CPI has undergone multiple revisions to maintain currency in language and tone and to remove disability-related content, and remains a powerful, reliable, and valid measure.
Definition
The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) was first available for general use in 1951, and has been most recently revised in 2002. The most recent version contains 260 true-false items, and generates 20 scales (e.g., dominance, responsibility, achievement via conformance, and flexibility), along with other special purpose scales. The current version must be scored by the publisher, Consulting Psychologists Press.
History
Harrison Gough, while a professor in the Department of Psychology at University of California, Berkeley, created the CPI, beginning with a subset of items taken from the Minnesota...
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Jones, C.J., Peskin, H. (2020). California Psychological Inventory (CPI). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_12
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