Convergence of personality assessment inventory PAI-SCZ Scale and Rorschach indices of perceptual-thinking index

Pages: 1985-1990
Manju Rani and Umed Singh (Department of Psychology Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana)

The Perception and Thinking variables assess one’s reality testing ability which, as previously noted, is one of the defining features of psychosis. The most current index designed to assess for both problems in combination is the TP-Comp (Meyer et al., 2011) whose origins can be traced back to the original Schizophrenia Index (SCZI; Exner, 1984-1986). The SCZI was revised several times and then ultimately gave way to the Perceptual Thinking Index (PTI; Exner, 2003) because the SCZI yielded an unacceptably high number of false positive identifications of schizophrenia and the other psychoses. This study was designed with the aim to asses and compares Rorschach Perceptual Thinking Index (PTI; Exner, 2000a-2000b) and Personality Assessment Inventory PAI-SCZ (PAI-SCZ; Morey, 1991) Scale in a homogenous sample of 350 young adult female matched by gender, age and educational level randomly drawn from Kurukshetra University. The age of participants ranged between 21-24 years with the mean age of 22 years. The obtained data were analyzed by Descriptive Statistics, Pearson’s Correlations. Results indicated convergence between the PAI-SCZ and Rorschach PTI.