Basic Personality Inventory (BPI)

Author(s): Douglas N. Jackson, Ph.D.

Publisher: Sigma Assessment Systems, 1988, 1995, 1997

Purpose: To evaluate personality
Candidates: 12+ years of age
Administration: 35 minutes - Individual and group

Content: The BPI is a multiphasic personality inventory intended for use with both clinical and normal populations to identify sources of maladjustment and personal strengths.

The BPI consists of 240 true/false items, 11 substantive clinical scales and one critical item scale.The scale names, chosen to avoid potentially inaccurate diagnostic labels while emphasising construct dimensions of psychopathology, include:

• Alienation
• Anxiety
• Denial
• Depression
• Deviation
• Hypochondriasis
• Impulse
• Expression
• Interpersonal Problems
• Persecutory Ideas
• Self Depreciation
• Social Introversion
• Thinking Disorder

The BPI can be used in public institutions, private psychological practices, psychiatric settings, counselling practices, juvenile/adult correctional facilities, and research settings.

• Online: The BPI is available online. For more information on pricing and ordering contact ACER Customer Service on (03) 98357447 or sales@acer.edu.au

• Hand scoring: The BPI may be hand scored in less than ten minutes, using hand scorable answer sheets, a single template and profile sheets with male and female norms on alternate sides.

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