The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) (Morey, 1991), a 344-item self-report inventory, assesses various domains of personality and psychopathology among adults and is designed for use in professional settings. The present chapter reviews information such as development of the test, its use with different populations, as well as some recent research literature attesting to the validity of this instrument.

Morey, Leslie C., and Suman Ambwani. The Personality Assessment Inventory. In The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment: Personality Measurement and Testing, Vol 2, edited by Gregory J. Boyle, Gerald Matthews, and Donald H. Saklofske, 626-645. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc, 2008.

Suman Ambwani is a professor of Psychology at Dickinson College.

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