TY - JOUR
AU - Martin-Cannici, Cynthia
AB - The use of scales on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) to detect defensiveness in criminal and nonclinical samples was evaluated. Forty-five male inmates of a county jail and 38 male undergraduate psychology students were provided with incentives to complete the PAI under two conditions: standard instructions and experimental instructions to feign a specific, positive role. A repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) yielded significant main effects of condition (responding honestly or defensively), order (standard vs. defensive instructions first) and group (student or offender). A step-wise discriminant function analysis significantly predicted honest and feigning conditions with a hit rate of 84.1%. A more effective cutting score for the Positive Impression scale is recommended.
TI - The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) and the Detection of Defensiveness
JF - Assessment
DO - 10.1177/1073191195002004004
DA - 1995-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-personality-assessment-inventory-pai-and-the-detection-of-Ufc0pypYkm
SP - 333
EP - 342
VL - 2
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -