Convergent Validity of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–2: Preliminary Findings With a Normative Sample CHEUNG, CHEUNG, ZHANG CHINESE PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT INVENTORY

We examined the convergent validity of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI; Cheung, Leung, et al., 1996), an indigenously constructed measure, by comparing its patterns of correlations with the MMPI–2 (Butcher et al., 2001). A valid sample of 147 Chinese students took both the CPAI and the MMPI–2. Results provide preliminary support for the convergence between most of the CPAI clinical scales and the relevant MMPI–2 scales. The CPAI personality scales further illustrated the patterns of personality features associated with the MMPI–2 scales in a Chinese cultural context. We discuss discrepancies in the correspondence between a number of CPAI and MMPI–2 clinical scales.