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Substance or Style? An Investigation of the NEO-PI-R Validity Scales
- Source :
- Journal of Personality Assessment. 79:583-599
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2002.
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Abstract
- The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992b) has been criticized for the absence of validity scales designed to detect response distortion. Recently, validity scales were developed from the items of the NEO-PI-R (Schinka, Kinder, & Kremer, 1997) and several studies have used a variety of methods to test their use. However, it is controversial whether these scales are measuring something that is substantive (such as psychopathology or its absence) or stylistic (which might be effortful distortion or less conscious processes such as lack of insight). In this study, we used a multimethod-multitrait approach to examine the validity of these scales in a clinical sample of 668 participants diagnosed with personality disorders or major depression. Using various indicators of both stylistic and substantive variance, confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) suggested that these validity scales measure something that may be conceptually distinct from, yet highly related to, substantive variance in responding.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
Personality Inventory
Psychometrics
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Test validity
Models, Psychological
Personality Disorders
Revised NEO Personality Inventory
Developmental psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
medicine
Humans
Prospective Studies
Personality test
Temperament
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Depressive Disorder
Reproducibility of Results
Construct validity
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Personality disorders
Clinical Psychology
Case-Control Studies
Female
Personality Assessment Inventory
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15327752 and 00223891
- Volume :
- 79
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Personality Assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0989397644c802f80055afef76ac88d2
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa7903_11