ABSTRACT
The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1991) was designed to provide psychological assessment information in a variety of contexts in which psychopathology, personality, and psychosocial environment are a concern. The breadth of coverage of important psychological constructs allows for a smooth translation to forensic settings (Boccaccini & Brodsky, 1999; Edens, Cruise, & Buffington-Vollum, 2001). This chapter provides a brief overview of the theory and procedures employed in developing the PAI, a review of PAI psychometric and validity data with particular emphasis on forensic research, a discussion of the use of the PAI in forensic settings, and an illustrative case example. More detailed coverage than is possible in this chapter can be found in several primary sources (Morey, 1991, 1996, 2003), and an independent review of the PAI in forensic settings is also available (Edens et al., 2001), as well as a review of the clinical applications of the PAI in criminal justice settings (Ruiz & Ochshorn, 2010). To orient the reader to the structure of the PAI, scale and subscale descriptions are listed in Table 5.1, and validity and predictive indices developed following the construction of the PAI are listed in Table 5.2.
