California Psychological Inventory
A self report inventory
Harrison Gough in 1956,
3rd third edition 1987.
It was created in a similar manner to the MMPI
by the criterion-group strategy.
But unlike the MMPI,(maladjustment or clinical diagnosis)
CPI attempts to evaluate personality in normally adjusted individuals and thus finds more use in counseling settings.
to assess the everyday “folk-concepts” that ordinary people use to describe the behavior of the people .
criterion groups (Ex. men Vs women; homosexual men Vs heterosexual men) were contrasted to produce measures of personality categorized as (1) introversion–extroversion, (2) conventional versus unconventional in following norms, and (3) self-realization and sense of integration.
13 years and older.
45–60 minutes
434 true-false questions, of which 194 were taken from the original version of the MMPI
Contains 20 scales( Dominance, Capacity for Status, Sociability, Social Presence, Self-acceptance, Independence, Empathy, Responsibility, Socialization, Self-control, Good Impression, Communality, Well-being, etc ), each of which is grouped into one of four classes.
Class I scales- evaluate poise, self-assurance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Class II scales – socialization, maturity, and responsibility, tend to be conscientious, honest, dependable, calm, practical, cooperative, and alert to ethical and moral issues.
Class III scales-achievement potential and intellectual efficiency.
Class IV scales- interest modes(adapt well socially).
Like the MMPI, the CPI shows considerable inter-correlation among its scales.
Test–retest Reliability range from .49 to .90
Construct validity Each new piece of literature extends the utility of the test
The advantage of the
Like the MMPI, the CPI shows considerable inter-correlation among its scales.
Test–retest Reliability range from .49 to .90
Construct validity Each new piece of literature extends the utility of the test
The advantage of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI)
- The CPI is commonly used in research settings to examine everything from typologies of sexual offenders (Worling, 2001) to career choices (Gough, 1995, 1996).
- used with normal subjects.
- Not like The MMPI and MMPI-2
- to assess normal individuals for interpersonal effectiveness and internal controls.
The criticism-the method used to establish some of the criterion groups for the California Psychological Inventory (CPI)