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- Title
Inventario de Evaluación de la Personalidad para adolescentes: consistencia interna y dimensionalidad en adolescentes de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Authors
Beatriz Stover, Juliana; de la Iglesia, Guadalupe; Castro-Solano, Alejandro; Fernández-Liporace, Mercedes
- Abstract
Introduction: The Personality Assessment Inventory for Adolescents (pai-a) examines the psychopathological symptomatology and variables related to the design of psychotherapeutic interventions. It is composed of 264 items for use in the clinical assessment of adolescents between 12-18 years old. Validity, clinical, treatment-related, and interpersonal relationship scales are included. Purpose: This paper presents psychometric analyses of the Personality Assessment Inventory for Adolescents. Method: The participants were 1,002 adolescents (50.3% women, 49.7% men, Mage = 14.99, sd = 1.88) living in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and on the outskirts. Cronbach's alphas were calculated to estimate internal consistency, with excellent values for clinical, treatment-related and interpersonal relationship scales, and acceptable values for validity scales and subscales. Results: Dimensionality was examined by principal component analysis with a varimax rotation. A four-factor structure was isolated by including the 22 scales, whereas two factors were obtained when analyzing the 11 clinical scales. Conclusions: We provide evidence of the psychometric quality of the pai-a for use with adolescents from Buenos Aires, filling a gap in local psychological assessment. Further research should extend these psychometric quality analyses, and replicate the procedures in clinical samples.
- Publication
Pensando Psicología, 2017, Vol 13, Issue 22, p15
- ISSN
1900-3099
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.16925/pe.v13i22.1985