title: Clinical validation of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory.
abstract: The clinical validity of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI; F. M. Cheung, K. Leung, et al., 1996) was examined in 2 studies involving a group of 167 male prisoners in Hong Kong and a group of 339 psychiatric patients in China. Elevated scores on the clinical scales were obtained for the clinical samples. Logistic regression analyses confirmed that the CPAI scales were useful in differentiating between male prisoner and the Hong Kong male normative sample and between psychiatric patients and a random sample of normal adults in China. Multivariate analyses of variance results showed significant differences on the CPAI clinical scales and personality scales among subgroups of psychiatric patients with diagnoses of bipolar, schizophrenic, and neurotic disorders. The usefulness of an indigenous personality inventory is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. fmcheung@cuhk.edu.hk
authors.forename: Fanny M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.forename: Jessica Y Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Kwong
authors.forename: Jianxin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results