Behavioral and experience inventory

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The Behavioral and Experience Inventory ( VEI ) is a multidimensional self-assessment sheet for adults that is used in clinical psychology and psychiatry to examine personality structure. The VEI provides information about the symptoms of people for whom professional clarification of a suspected mental disorder is indicated. The VEI is the German-language adaptation of the Personality Assessment Inventory ( PAI ) , of which there are also Spanish, Italian and Greek versions.

description

The PAI was first published in 1991 by Leslie Morey, and in 2007 the manual was published in a considerably expanded edition. The German adaptation, the VEI, appeared in 2012. The VEI test booklet consists of 344 statements (called " items ", similar to: "I like to collect dried flowers", "I have many enemies", "I am always miserable in the morning") , which are answered on a four-point scale (wrong - partly correct - mostly correct - completely correct). The answers are summarized in 22 independent scales and compared with the values ​​of the calibration sample during the evaluation. Healthy people need around 40 minutes to fill out the test booklet, patients often an hour. The construction of the scales of the PAI was mainly deductive and rational, empirical methods were used for checking. In terms of content, the scales are based on the nomenclature of ICD-10 and DSM-IV . The linguistic equivalence of VEI and PAI was shown in a study of bilingual people. The VEI was normalized on a representative random sample of 749 adults. The VEI's 22 scales are divided into 4 validity scales, 11 clinical scales, 5 treatment scales and 2 interpersonal scales. 10 scales are further subdivided into subscales, a total of 31. The four validity scales help to assess the validity of a test profile. Content-independent answers, but also content-related falsification tendencies can be recognized with them. The 11 clinical scales and their subscales focus on symptoms of mental disorders in the narrower sense: somatic complaints, anxiety, depression, mania, paranoia, schizophrenia, borderline traits, antisocial behaviors, alcohol and drug problems. Many core symptoms of mental disorders are represented here. Four other scales tend to capture the treatment environment: aggression, suicidality, stress, lack of support, refusal of treatment. The two interpersonal scales dominance and warmth complete the personality description.

Application area

Like the MMPI , the VEI is more of an inventory for mental disorders than a general personality questionnaire (such as the NEO-PI-R ). The focus of application is therefore on clinical-psychological and psychiatric focuses, including use in court reports. VEI and PAI are also frequently used in research projects in personality research. There is an extensive bibliography on the PAI on the website of the publisher of the PAI.

Application and evaluation

In view of the many scales and some additional validity indices, manual evaluation is not provided. The items can be answered either on an answer sheet or directly on the computer. The evaluation takes place in each case in the computer, hand-filled answer sheets are sent either by fax or by e-mail attachment to the evaluation service. This is where the results are evaluated and graphically processed, and verbal interpretation if required.

Reliability and validity

The VEI has good reliability values. The internal consistency is high (the Cronbach alpha for the clinical full scales is between 0.8 and 0.9). The retest reliability reached a median value of 0.86 across all full scales. There is extensive data on the validity of the PAI in the American manual. A query in PubMed for the keyword "Personality Assessment Inventory" provides over 300 scientific papers on this. For the VEI, validity data were collected from patients at a psychiatric university clinic, which are presented in the German manual. The control examinations for the function of the validity scales are also extensive.

Copyrights and application control

The rights to the VEI are held by Verlag Hans Huber, Hogrefe AG ​​in Bern, those of the original American version are held by Psychological Assessment Resources in Lutz, Florida, USA. The test material is only sold to professionals. Computer and fax evaluations are also subject to a charge.

Reviews in trade journals

In the PSYNDEX Test Reviews, which are accessible to individual users via PubPsych , there is a review of the VEI in which the procedure is discussed in detail. Further literature on VEI can also be found there. A brief discussion, along with other procedures, appeared in Deutsches Ärzteblatt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Morey, LC (2007). The Personality Assessment Inventory. Professional manual . Lutz, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
  2. ↑ a b Engel, RR (2012). Behavior and experience inventory (VEI). German-language adaptation of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) by Leslie C. Morey . Bern: Verlag Hans Huber.
  3. ^ Groves, JA & Engel, RR (2007). The German adaptation and standardization of the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). Journal of Personality Assessment, 88 , 49-56.
  4. ↑ personality assessment inventory ( English ) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  5. ^ VEI review in PSYNDEX Test Review. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  6. ^ VEI discussion in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .

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