TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Standardization of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory: The prototype standardization method and its rationale
JO  - Asian journal of social psychology
A1  - Yung, Yiu‐Fai
A1  - Chan, Wai
A1  - Cheung, Fanny Miu-Ching
A1  - Leung, K.
A1  - Law, Japhet S.
A1  - Zhang, J. X.
SP  - 133
EP  - 152
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
N2  - <p>Methods and techniques for the standardization of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI) are reviewed and discussed. Based on the idea of the UT transformation (Tellegen & Ben‐Porath, 1992), a general method called prototype standardization is applied to the clinical scales as well as the personality scales of the CPAI. The rationale of the prototype standardization method is explained. Some variations of the basic methodology are suggested and applied to the CPAI. It is demonstrated that the prototype standardization of the CPAI yields desirable psychometric properties such as percentile comparability across scales and preservation of the correlation structures of the scales, even for the personality scales of the CPAI that do not have a homogeneous distributional shape. We conclude that prototype standardization is a useful method for standardizing all kinds of personality inventories consisting of a large number of scales.</p><p /> 
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SN  - 1367-2223
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-839X.00059
ID  - ref1
ER  -