The Personal Attribute Inventory: a Measure of Self-Concepts and Personality Profiles

Abstract

Parish and Eads (1977) and Parish, Eads, and Adams (1977) reported that the Personal Attribute Inventory (PAI) was significantly correlated with two self-concept measures, i.e., the unfavorable and favorable subscales of Gough's (1952) Adjective Check List. As further evidence that the PAI is a self-concept scale, the present study required 265 college students to respond to it and to the 16 PF. As hypothesized, the PAI was significantly related to the self-concept factor ( Q3) on the 16 PF (males: r = -.47; females: r = -.29; both sexes: r = -.37, all p < .001, respectively). In addition, the PAI was found to be significantly correlated with eleven other personality factors on the 16 PF. Thus, the PAI was actually able to provide personality profiles of those deemed to exhibit high or low standing on 12 of 16 PF scales in directions that were judged to be associated with high and low self-concepts.