Personality

Assessment
Screener
Personality Assessment Screener®
• Leslie C. Morey, PhD
• Purpose: Screens for a broad range of clinical problems
• Format: Paper and pencil, Online administration and scoring via
PARiConnect, Software
• Age range: 18 years to 89 years
• Time: 5 minutes
Introduction
• A self-administered, objective questionnaire.
• Provide rapid screening for a broad range of different clinical issues.
• Contails 22 items that are organized heirarchically into a total score
and 10 different elements.
• Developed in reference to Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI).
PAS Score Description
TOTAL SCORE
PAS Total Assess potential for emotional and behavioral problems of clinical significance
and need for follow-up evaluation.
Element Scores
Negative Affect (NA) High scores suggest personal distress and the experience of unhapiness and
apprehension.
Acting Out (AO) High scores suggest behavioral problems associated with impulsivity, sensation-
seeking, drug use, or a combination.
Health Problems (HP) High scores suggest somatic complaints and health concerns.
Psychotic Feature (PF) High scores suggest risk of persecutory thinking and other psychotic
phenomena.
Social Withdrawal (SW) High scores suggest social detachment and discomfort in close relationships.
Hostile Control (HC) High scores suggest an interpersonal style characterized by needs for control
and inflated self-image.
Suicidal Thinking (ST) High scores suggest thoughts of death or suicide.
Alienation (AN) High scores suggest failures of supportive relationship and a distrust of or
disinterest in such relationships.
Alcohol Problem (AP) High scores suggest negative consequences related to alcohol use and abuse.
Anger Control (AC) High scores suggest dififculties in the management of anger.
P score
• Sum of raw scores for each element will be converted to P score.
• P score is a probability estimate reflecting the likelihood that a given
person completing the test would obtain a problematic protocol when
the PAI is taken.
• Sampling size: 2,631
Administration and Scoring
Population
• Developed for use in screening for individuals 18 years and above.
• Valid administration of the PAS assumes that the respondent is
physically and emotionally capble of meeting the normal demands ot
testing.
Intpretative Caveats
• Diagnostic and treatment decisions should never be based exclusively
on the results of the PAS.
• Interpretative hypotheses derived from PAS test results should always
be limited to the purposes for which the scale is administered.
Scoring and Profiling
• Tear the perforation at the right of the response form and peel back
the top page.
• The bottom page (self-carbon) provides item scores ranging from 0 to
3 for each of the 22 items.
• The black areas in the scoring grid designates.
• Transfer the scores for all items to the appropriate blank spaces each
element and enter and enter the element raw scores in the spaces
provided at the top of each column.
• Sum the 10 element raw scores and enter this score.
• Use table A2 in appendix A (element scores).
• Find associated P values with the raw score.
• Use table a1 to obtain total P score (total PAS).