ABSTRACT
Questionnaire-based methods of assessing adolescents require careful attention to issues of the adolescent’s capacity to provide an accurate self-report and the adequacy of the assessment instrument in providing reliable and valid measurement of psychological functioning during this developmental period. There are relatively few self-report personality measures available for use with adolescents, perhaps in part because of the constraints related to reading/ comprehension ability, cognitive/affective developmental status, and motivational level of adolescents in clinical settings. Currently available measures include the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI; Millon, 1993) and the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale (APS; Reynolds, 1998), and an adolescent version of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI-A) is currently under development (Morey, 2000). By a large margin, however, the most widely used self-report measure of adolescents’ functioning is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A).
