A New Subscale for the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) to Screen Adults for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Page: 10
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endorsed by ADHD adults, moderately discriminate between adults with and without ADHD
(DeLong, 2008; Watson & Liljequist, 2015). The current ADHD assessment literature points to
the possibility of the creation of an ADHD item-level index for the PAI that would effectively
decrease false positive rates and increase accurate detection of ADHD in the adult population
(Aita et al., 2017). The purpose of the current study, therefore, is to develop and test rationally-
determined "ADHD" items within a standard administration of the PAI that discriminates adults
with ADHD from adults without ADHD. I will label this new scale as the "PAI-ADHD."
Convergent and concurrent validity of the PAI-ADHD subscale will be examined with
procedures salient in the literature (Cicchetti, 1994).
Hypotheses
" Hypothesis. A group of experts in ADHD will agree on which items from the
Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) will differentiate between adults with and
without ADHD.
" Hypothesis 2. The "ADHD" items identified by experts will load adequately onto a
single factor.
" Hypothesis 3. The PAI-ADHD will be positively correlated with the Conners' Adult
ADHD Rating Scale - Self-Report - Long Version (CAARS-Self) subscales and the
Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS) sub-score.
" Hypothesis 4. Participants with ADHD will score significantly higher on the PAI-
ADHD than participants without ADHD or an LD.
" Hypothesis 5. The PAI-ADHD scores of participants diagnosed with ADHD will be
significantly higher than the scores of participants diagnosed with a learning
disability (e.g., specific learning disorder with impairment in reading and written
expression) and no comorbid ADHD diagnosis.10
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Calmenson, Nina E. A New Subscale for the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) to Screen Adults for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), dissertation, August 2021; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1833444/m1/18/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .