| Research on psychological screening tools for the selection of law enforcement has primarily centered on personality instruments such as the Inwald Personality Inventory (IPI), the 16 Personality Factors (16PF), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and several others. Though there is a great need for Spanish translations of these instruments, few studies have examined personality measures in Spanish. This study examined the correlations between the Spanish language versions of the IPI-2 and 16PF with a sample of 35 college Spanish speaking student-participants aged 18-25. A Pearson r correlation was used to compare the IPI-2 and the 16PF scores. A correlation of .43 was needed to be statistically significant at the .01 level (two-tailed). Fourteen out of seventeen IPI-2 scales; (SU, RG, PS, SD, VT, AX, AT, DM, EM, NC, UR, RT, IR, and HC) positively correlate with eleven primary 16PF (C, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, O, Q2, and Q4) scales and five global factors (GFExtra, GFInd, GFTough, GFSelf, and GFAnx) scales, ranging from .34 to .66. Results of this analysis yielded a statistically significant relationship between the IPI-2 and the 16PF scales in the Spanish version. These results conclusively demonstrate that the IPI-2 scales measure what they intend to measure as they are correlated with most of the 16PF scales that measure similar constructs. |
