Clinical validation of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI

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 personal-ity 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. A major task of clinical psychologists in Chinese societies in-volves psychological assessment. The need for Chi-nese-language clinical assessment tools has led to the wide-spread use of translated instruments from the West (Cheung, 1996). One of the advantages of translating and adapting well-established instruments is the possibility of tapping the wealth of evidence accumulated to support the conceptual and psychometric properties of these instruments (Cheung, 1985). An important example is the Chinese Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and its revised versions