Definition
The CAQ is a self-report questionnaire that measures clinical and nonclinical personality traits in an effort to create a multidimensional personality profile (Krug et al. 1980).
Introduction
The CAQ is a 272-item measure divided into two parts. These two parts were derived from a factor analysis (Delhees and Cattell 1971a) of the combined 750 items from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI, Hathaway and McKinley 1942), 16 Personality Factor (16PF, Cattell et al. 1970), and additional pathological scales not part of any formal measure most succinctly described as belonging to an “MMPI item pool” (Krug et al. 1980, p. 1). The number of items was then greatly condensed into the two parts of the CAQ that are divided into subscales based on the 28 unitary factors revealed by the aforementioned factor analysis (Delhees and Cattell 1971b). In breaking with the tradition from the response options of the parent measures, the CAQ items allow respondents to select...
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Swails, J.A., Akao, K.A. (2020). Clinical Analysis Questionnaire. 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_18
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