Comparison of embedded and isolated administrations of the California Psychological Inventory's Socialization subscale.
Alternate administration methods were tested for the Socialization (So) subscale of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI; H. G. Gough, 1994; H. G. Gough & P. Bradley, 1996) in 437 young adult men. One method administered the 46 CPI-So items in isolation from the CPI, whereas the 2nd method administered the 46 items embedded in the CPI. External validity measures of antisociality were also administered over the 2 sessions. Isolated administration produced somewhat higher internal consistency and significantly better concurrent validity and demonstrated construct validity as a measure of antisociality. Additional factor analytic studies of the CPI-So and CPI revealed that the 2 CPI-So versions had different factorial structures and that the embedded CPI-So subscale did not retain factorial integrity or an appreciable amount of reliable and uniquely interpretable variance.
Alterman
Arthur I
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3440 Market Street, Suite 370, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. alterman@mail.trc.upenn.edu
McDermott
Paul A
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Mulvaney
Frank D
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Cacciola
John S
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Rutherford
Megan J
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Searles
John S
JS
Lynch
Kevin
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Cnaan
Avital
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D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D015203:Reproducibility of Results