PERSONALITY-ASSESSMENT INVENTORY - A CONFIRMATORY FACTOR-ANALYSIS

The Personality Assessment Inventory is a recently constructed multi-d imensional self-report measure of personality traits. Morey reported t he results of a scale factoring, claiming that the instrument measures four separate higher-order dimensions; however, in an independent Aus tralian study of the psychometric properties of the inventory, Boyle a nd Lennon found five higher-order dimensions, using factor analytic pr ocedures intended to maximize simple structure. The present paper repo rts the results of a confirmatory factor analysis for the proposed mod el based on the Australian data. The results indicate that the model d oes not provide a satisfactory fit, raising questions about the higher -order factor structure.