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The Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory 2 (CPAI-2) is a comprehensive personality measure that has incorporated universal personality factors with culturally relevant dimension appropriate for the Chinese people, extracting an interpersonal relatedness factor beyond the five factor model. This measure also includes clinical scales and validity scales.
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In view of the cultural differences and insufficiency of translated western personality measures, the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory 2 (CPAI-2) was developed by a collaborative research team led by Cheung from the Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Institute of Psychology at the Chinese Academy of Science (Cheung et al. 1996). Using a combined emic-etic approach by incorporating indigenous as well as universal personality dimensions that are both relevant to the local culture and comparable...
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Cheung, F.M. (2017). Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_17-1
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