title: Development and initial validation of the disinhibition inventory: a multifaceted measure of disinhibition.
abstract: The broad personality trait of disinhibition reflects the tendency to behave in an underconstrained versus overconstrained manner and is associated with externalizing psychopathology and risk-taking behaviors. This article describes the development and initial validation of the Disinhibition Inventory (DIS-I), a multifaceted measure of disinhibition that helps explicate the nature of this important higher-order dimension more fully. Factor analyses of an initial item pool resulted in five content-distinct, yet correlated scales measuring both high (Manipulativeness, Distractibility, Risk Taking) and low (Prosociality, Orderliness) levels of disinhibition that cross-validated in an independent sample. Evidence for the construct validity of the DIS-I is presented, including convergent and discriminant relations with Big-Three and Big-Five/five-factor model measures of personality. Results indicate that the DIS-I scales are associated most strongly with other measures of disinhibition, but that the DIS-I additionally contains content absent in extant adult measures of disinhibition that may prove useful in the assessment of externalizing psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
authors.forename: Lilian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dindo
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: McDade-Montez
authors.forename: Leigh
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: Lee Anna
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D032763:Behavior Control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012919:Social Behavior; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult