ABSTRACT
The Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) was developed with the intent of providing a comprehensive personality inventory suited to the local needs while retaining the psychometric standards of established assessment measures. A combined emic-etic approach was adopted to include both indigenous and universal personality constructs that would be relevant to describing person characteristics and predicting behaviors in the Chinese cultural context. As in the development of the original CPAI, a combined emic-etic approach was adopted to derive the new set of openness scales. Research on openness-related concepts in Chinese and Western cultures was reviewed. The chapter focuses on the changes in the normal personality scales, especially the development of openness scales for the CPAI-2. The CPAI-2 provides a measure that is sensitive to the indigenous cultural context, allows cross-cultural comparison of the meaning of etic or imposed etic traits, and extends the interpretation of indigenous traits in a broader cultural context.
