scholarly journals Short Forms of the Cross-Cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory: Reliability, Validity, and Measurement Invariance Across Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingjie Zhou ◽  
Duan Huang ◽  
Fen Ren ◽  
Weiqiao Fan ◽  
Weiqi Mu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Short Forms ◽  
Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
The Cross

Filling out long questionnaires can be frustrating, unpleasant, and discouraging for respondents to continue. This is why shorter forms of long instruments are preferred, especially when they have comparable reliability and validity. In present study, two short forms of the Cross-cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI-2) were developed and validated. The items of the short forms were all selected from the 28 personality scales of the CPAI-2 based on the norm sample. Based on some priori criteria, we obtained the appropriate items and constructed the 56-item Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) and the 28-item CPAI. Then, we examined the factor structure of both short forms with Exploratory SEM (ESEM) and replicated the four-factor structure of the original CPAI-2, reflecting the four personality domains of Chinese people, namely, Social Potency, Dependability, Accommodation, and Interpersonal Relatedness. Further analyses with ESEM models demonstrate full measurement invariance across gender for both short forms. The results show that females score lower than males on Social Potency. In addition, these four factors of both short forms have adequate internal consistency, and the correlation patterns of the four factors, the big five personality traits, and several health-related variables are extremely similar across the two short forms, reflecting adequate and comparable criterion validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity. Overall, the short versions of CPAI-2 are psychometrically acceptable and have practically implications for measuring Chinese personality and cross-cultural research.

Personality Assessment

2016 ◽  
pp. 134-146
Author(s):  
Dragos Iliescu ◽  
Dan Ispas
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
International Context ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Definition Of

The chapter focuses on the assessment of personality in an international context. Starting from the definition of personality, the chapter discusses the way culture and personality are mixed and sets then out to explain the emic (indigenous) versus etic (universal) debate in personality assessment. The combined emic-etic approach is outlined as an interesting evolution in cross-cultural personality assessment, and two measures based on this approach are discussed, the Cross-Cultural Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) and the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI). Finally, the chapter discusses the currently dominant model of personality used in assessment internationally, the five-factor model, outlining some of the dilemmas still being debated related to this model, such as the broad versus narrow debate, the cross-cultural replicability issue, and the bandwidth-fidelity dilemma.

Indigenous Approaches to Testing and Assessment

2016 ◽  
pp. 333-346
Author(s):  
Fanny M. Cheung ◽  
Velichko H. Fetvadjiev
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Psychological Tests ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory

This chapter discusses the need for culturally relevant tools for testing and assessment in non-Western countries, where it has been a common practice to adopt and translate psychological tests originally developed in Western countries. This etic approach assumes that Western theories and tools are universally applicable. Apart from the challenges of establishing equivalence between the original Western tests and the translated tests, the etic approach has been queried on the lack of relevance of some universal constructs that may be imposed on the local population. The indigenization movement in psychology arose in response to the imposed etic approach. Several indigenization responses in cognitive and personality assessment are presented to illustrate the introduction of emic constructs and measures. Using the combined emic-etic approach, two large-scale indigenous personality measures have been developed in China and South Africa: the Cross-cultural (Chinese) Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) and the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI).

Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Stigma of Suicide Scale–Short Form Among Adolescents and Early Adults in Hong Kong

Assessment ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 107319112097685
Author(s):  
Ted C. T. Fong ◽  
Paul S. F. Yip ◽  
Milton Y. H. Chan ◽  
Rainbow T. H. Ho
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Equation Modeling

Suicide is a global public health concern. The Stigma of Suicide Scale–Short Form (SOSS-SF) is a brief measure on the stigma toward suicide. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the SOSS-SF in a sample of 1,946 adolescents and early adults ( M age = 23.3, 69% females) in Hong Kong. The participants completed the SOSS-SF, measures on suicidal ideation and perceived distress, and binary items on lifetime risk behaviors online. Exploratory structural equation modeling evaluated the factor structure and reliability of the SOSS-SF in split samples and its measurement invariance, convergent validity, and discriminant validity in the overall sample. Contrary to a poor fit for the three-factor structure in the original 16-item SOSS-SF, the four-factor model showed a good fit in the revised 12-item version in both subsamples. The four factors (Glorification, Isolation, Disgrace, and Selfishness) loaded significantly on three items each (λ = .52-.93) and had adequate reliability (ω = .78-.88). The SOSS-SF displayed scalar invariance across age group, gender, and suicidal ideation and significant associations with validating variables. These results demonstrate a valid and reliable four-factor structure for the SOSS-SF and support its use for assessment of multifaceted stigma toward suicide.

Components of Source “Image”: Hong Kong, Brazil, North America

1969 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Lemert
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
North America ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Source Image ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Three Factor

Evidence of three kinds is given for the cross-cultural generality of a three-factor structure of source image: Safety, Dynamism and Qualification, which emerges across sources, scales, cultures, instructions and situations.

Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory--English Version

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanny M. Cheung ◽  
Shu Fai Cheung ◽  
Kwok Leung ◽  
Colleen Ward ◽  
Frederick Leong
Keyword(s):  
Personality Assessment ◽  
Personality Assessment Inventory ◽  
English Version ◽  
Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory
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