Development and Initial Validation of the Disinhibition Inventory: A Multifaceted Measure of Disinhibition

Autor/inn/en	Dindo, Lilian; McDade-Montez, Elizabeth; Sharma, Leigh; Watson, David; Clark, Lee Anna
Titel	Development and Initial Validation of the Disinhibition Inventory: A Multifaceted Measure of Disinhibition
Quelle	In: Assessment, 16 (2009) 3, S.274-291 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1073-1911
DOI	10.1177/1073191108328890
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Personality Measures; Test Construction; Test Validity; Factor Analysis; Psychopathology; Undergraduate Students; NEO Personality Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Testaufbau; Testvalidität; Faktorenanalyse; Psychopathologie
Abstract	The broad personality trait of disinhibition reflects the tendency to behave in an underconstrained versus overconstrained manner and is associated with externalizing psychopathology and risk-taking behaviors. This article describes the development and initial validation of the Disinhibition Inventory (DIS-I), a multifaceted measure of disinhibition that helps explicate the nature of this important higher-order dimension more fully. Factor analyses of an initial item pool resulted in five content-distinct, yet correlated scales measuring both high (Manipulativeness, Distractibility, Risk Taking) and low (Prosociality, Orderliness) levels of disinhibition that cross-validated in an independent sample. Evidence for the construct validity of the DIS-I is presented, including convergent and discriminant relations with Big-Three and Big-Five/five-factor model measures of personality. Results indicate that the DIS-I scales are associated most strongly with other measures of disinhibition, but that the DIS-I additionally contains content absent in extant adult measures of disinhibition that may prove useful in the assessment of externalizing psychopathology. (Contains 7 tables and 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10