Examining differential item functioning and group differences across student and community samples on the Personality Inventory for the DSM-V-Short Form

This study shows that student data collected on the PID-5-SF can, in the present case, be considered representative of the broader community. In turn, this facilitates further ongoing work on its psychometric properties and the development of preliminary norms. In this way, it will contribute to the international literature on the PID-5-SF's psychometric functioning and enable further applied research on personality disorders among practitioners and researchers in South Africa.